Senior Software Engineer, AI-Powered Cyber Risk Platform

UpGuard Inc.; Sydney; Remote; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lifestyle subsidy

WfH setup

Learning allowance

Annual leave

Parental leave

Personal leave

Fully remote

Top-spec hardware

AI subsidy

Stock options

Job summary

UpGuard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own a feature area within our Product Engineering team. You will influence architectural decisions, mentor engineers and ensure delivery from design to production. Our stack includes React/TypeScript on the frontend and Go with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes in GCP.

You'll work with a cross-functional squad and contribute to plan, scope, and execution for critical security risk products used by customers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Typically 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech-centric, product-driven companies.
• Strong TypeScript and React
• A backend language you're productive in (we use Go)
• Solid relational database skills (we use Postgres)
• AI coding tools as your default workflow, and the judgment to review and own what they produce
• Pragmatic trade-offs: you weigh technical quality against what the business needs now
• Low ego, high care: you're in it for the product and the customer, not just the code
• A track record of leading technical design for a feature area and seeing it through to production
• Experience mentoring engineers and lifting the quality of the code and decisions around you

Responsibilities

• Own a feature area end to end, from design conversations with product through to production and follow-up
• Lead technical design for your area and drive the architectural decisions within it
• Work with product and design to shape what we build: what's possible, what it costs, and what should come first
• Mentor the engineers around you and lift the quality of the squad's code and decisions
• Improve the reliability, scalability and performance of the systems you own
• Go deep on the cybersecurity domain and bring that understanding into what we build

Skills

TypeScript

React

Go

Postgres

AI tools

System design

Mentoring

Leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

UpGuard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own a feature area within our Product Engineering team. You will influence architectural decisions, mentor engineers and ensure delivery from design to production. Our stack includes React/TypeScript on the frontend and Go with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes in GCP.

You'll work with a cross-functional squad and contribute to plan, scope, and execution for critical security risk products used by customers worldwide.