Senior Software Engineer - AI-Driven Digital Archive

Nine; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks parental leave

Employee Exclusives program

Digital newspaper subscription

Stan subscription

Job summary

Nine’s Digital Archive team is undertaking a landmark project to digitise and productise a vast national archive. As Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the foundational design of AI-powered products, enabling access to historical content for internal creators and new external markets, unlocking diversified revenue streams for Nine.

This 12-month contract offers a chance to shape Australia's cultural heritage with cutting-edge tech and strategic leadership across engineering and product

Qualifications

• 6+ years of progressive software engineering experience in enterprise platforms.
• Experience designing scalable, robust architectures for large data and ML-enabled products.
• Cloud infrastructure expertise (AWS, GCP, or Azure) for large-scale ingestion and processing.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, robust infrastructure for ingestion, processing, and long-term preservation of massive multimedia datasets.
• Develop foundational software architecture integrating ML capabilities for rich content enrichment and discovery features.
• Define distributed system architectures with seamless cloud integration.
• Mentor engineering teams and articulate architectural decisions to executives and cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership & mentoring

Architecture design

Cloud architecture

Communication

Golang/Java

Tools

Golang

Java

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Nine’s Digital Archive team is undertaking a landmark project to digitise and productise a vast national archive. As Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the foundational design of AI-powered products, enabling access to historical content for internal creators and new external markets, unlocking diversified revenue streams for Nine.

This 12-month contract offers a chance to shape Australia's cultural heritage with cutting-edge tech and strategic leadership across engineering and product