Senior Software Engineer

Abby Health - Quality Care, Online-First; Sydney; In loco; AUD 108.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

ESOP

Ownership of major projects

Direct collaboration with founders and

Descrizione del lavoro

Abby is seeking an experienced software engineer to own features across the patient app, clinician portal, internal tooling, mobile apps, and API. Reporting to the CTO, you will set priorities, lead end-to-end projects, and mentor peers in a small, fast-moving healthtech startup based in Sydney.

The role emphasizes shipping production software across the stack, collaborating on large projects, and maintaining patient-focused reliability.

Competenze

• Roughly 5+ years shipping production software.
• Full-stack capability across frontend, backend, and databases.
• Ownership of projects end-to-end with concrete impact.
• Startup experience is a strong plus; comfortable with change.
• Strong software engineering judgement and reliability mindset.

Mansioni

• Ship features across frontend, backend, database and own day-to-day delivery.
• Lead large, complex projects with clear ownership.
• Clarify scope and questions before building; avoid rework.
• Maintain production health and patient-facing reliability.
• Build understanding of Abby's care delivery to connect user value.
• Onboarding: 1 month to debug independently; 3 months to own major area.
• 6 months: deliver significant capability and mentor others.

Conoscenze

Stack ownership

End-to-end delivery

Mentoring engineers

Product judgment

Reliability mindset

Ability to adapt to pace

In-person collaboration

Sydney-based

Strumenti

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Express

PostgreSQL

AWS

Datadog

Auth0

Stripe

Descrizione del lavoro

Abby is an Australian healthtech startup making it easy to see a doctor online - booking, telehealth consults, prescriptions, results and follow-up care in one place. Thousands of patients already use Abby, and we're now building toward owning the clinical experience end-to-end.

We're a small team. You'll work directly with the founders, our clinicians and our support team - there are no layers in between.

The role

You'll build and own work across the whole platform: the patient app, the clinician portal, our internal tooling, the mobile apps and the API behind all of them. You'll report directly to our CTO - a technical co-founder who's still hands-on in the code - and work with a high degree of autonomy.

This is a role for an experienced engineer who can take a complex problem, work out what actually needs to be built, and own it through to production. You'll set your own priorities within your area, lead significant projects end-to-end, and be accountable for how they land. You'll also help the engineers around you - mentoring, reviewing, and turning ambiguous problems into clearly defined work the team can move on.

What you'll do

• Ship features across the stack. frontend, backend, database and own the day-to-day delivery of your slice of the work
• Contribute to large, complex projects alongside the team, taking clear ownership of the pieces that are yours
• Clarify assumptions and scope up front. Asking the right question before you build is worth more here than fixing it after
• Help keep production healthy - debug real patient-facing issues, respond when things break, and care that patients never feel it
• Build a working understanding of how Abby delivers care, so you know why the thing you're building matters to a patient or a clinician
• 1 month - you know our systems and can debug and fix production issues on your own. Onboarding here takes days, not weeks.
• 3 months - you're owning a major project or product area, setting its priorities and shipping independently.
• 6 months - you've delivered significant capability patients and clinicians rely on, and you're a go-to person for technical decisions and for helping others get unstuck.

How we build

• AI-native. AI tools (Claude Code, primarily) write most of our code. Your leverage is judgment, direction and review - knowing what to ask for, and spotting when the answer looks right but isn't. If you're already building this way, you'll feel at home; if the idea doesn't excite you, this isn't the right role.
• Patients first. The tech comes second to the patient experience. We optimise to the level that makes sense for the problem, not for its own sake.
• In person. We're a small team that moves fastest in the same room. This role is Sydney-based and in the office regularly.

Our stack

React + TypeScript on the front end (patient app and clinician portal), Node.js + Express + PostgreSQL on the back end, AWS infrastructure, and a Swift iOS app. Around that: Datadog, Auth0, Stripe, and integrations across the Australian healthcare ecosystem.

What we're looking for

• Solid experience shipping production software. Roughly 5+ years, with real users on the other side of your code and systems you've owned in production.
• Confident across the full stack. Frontend, backend, database, infrastructure - you'll have strengths, but you can take a feature through every layer.
• You own outcomes. You set your own priorities, drive projects end-to-end, and are accountable for how they land.
• Business and product judgment. You weigh cost, effort and patient impact, and explain the trade-offs clearly to non-engineers.
• You lift others. You've mentored engineers, give useful code review, and make ambiguous problems clear for the people around you.
• A reliability mindset. You notice when things break, you fix them properly, and you care that patients never feel it.
• Comfortable with pace and change. Startup experience is a strong plus; staying effective when priorities shift is the real requirement.
• Sydney-based and keen to work alongside the team in person.

What you get

• Up to $180k + super, depending on experience
• ESOP (eligibility from 6 months)
• Real ownership of major projects at a growing healthtech startup, working directly with the founders and CTO
• A clear path to grow - the scope of what you own expands as fast as you can take it on