Senior Software Engineer: AI-Driven Architect & Cloud-Native Leader

Plan Partners; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Novated leasing benefits

12 weeks paid parental leave

Learning and development opportunities

Sonder digital wellbeing platform

Job summary

McMillan Shakespeare is modernising systems and redefining how financial services technology delivers value at scale. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on ownership, architectural influence, and lifting engineering standards.

You will design solutions, write high-quality production code, troubleshoot complex issues, and work across the full software development lifecycle. If you’re passionate about modern architecture and AI-driven solutions, this is a high-impact opportunity.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience developing and maintaining enterprise applications using C# with .NET / .NET Core.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience writing SQL, including complex queries, stored procedures, joins, data manipulation and SQL performance optimisation.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, developing and deploying applications using Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus, Azure Key Vault and Azure API Management.
• This is specifically an Azure-focused requirement; AWS Functions/serverless experience alone is not sufficient.
• Practical experience working with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), ideally including integrating AI/LLM capabilities into software applications and using AI to generate or assist with code in a production environment.
• Experience with Agentic AI, AI agents and intelligent automation, including using AI to automate business processes, workflows, development tasks or other operational activities. Production experience is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical quality, scalability and security across applications and integrations.
• Lead and uplift engineering standards through mentoring and code reviews.
• Partner with Product, Architecture and Business stakeholders to shape solutions.
• Champion modern engineering practices including CI/CD, observability and automation.
• Contribute to event-driven, cloud-native systems.
• Support production environments and lead incidents.

Skills

C# / .NET

SQL

Azure cloud

Generative AI

LLMs

AI agents

CI/CD

Observability

Event-driven

Architecture

Mentoring

Tools

Azure App Services

Azure Functions

Azure Logic Apps

Azure Service Bus

Azure Key Vault

Azure API Management

Job description

McMillan Shakespeare is modernising systems and redefining how financial services technology delivers value at scale. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on ownership, architectural influence, and lifting engineering standards.

You will design solutions, write high-quality production code, troubleshoot complex issues, and work across the full software development lifecycle. If you’re passionate about modern architecture and AI-driven solutions, this is a high-impact opportunity.