Senior Software Engineer - Backend

The Lottery Corporation; City of Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Learning platform

Volunteer opportunities

Inclusion initiatives

Job summary

The Lottery Corporation is seeking a Backend Engineer to help build the next generation of digital experiences powering Australia’s entertainment platform. You will design APIs, implement scalable services and contribute to AI-enabled engineering workflows.

You will work across web, iOS and Android ecosystems, collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver high-quality, observable backend systems. Hybrid working is available.

Qualifications

• Experience designing APIs and backend services at scale.
• Strong domain modelling, integrations and distributed systems.
• Comfort with cloud platforms and modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Design APIs, contracts and shared services.
• Build server-side architecture for web and mobile.
• Own domain modelling and systems design.
• Drive integration and contract testing practices.
• Build scalable, observable and secure backend services.
• Contribute to AI-enabled engineering workflows.

Skills

API design

Backend architectures

Domain modelling

Cloud platforms

Infrastructure as code

AI-assisted development

Problem solving

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Job description

Are you ready to join the winning team at The Lottery Corporation?

We power Australia's biggest lottery games - and we're one of the world's top-performing lottery businesses.

As the home of The Lott and Keno, we're building on decades of excitement and life-changing wins, bringing our games to every state and territory except WA.

For more than a century, we've been playing our role in creating positive impacts by delivering winning moments every day to our people, our customers, retailers, partners and our community.

But we're not standing still. We're evolving into an entertainment company - more customer-obsessed, more agile and driven by real outcomes.

Because at our core, it's simple: we create winning moments - and we're building the next chapter as the team behind Where Australia Comes to Play.

Join us!

About Frontier

Frontier is a new team within Digital, created to explore a fundamentally different approach to product development. We're building new greenfield digital experiences across web, iOS and Android while developing an AI-powered delivery model that changes how software is designed, built and operated. Rather than using AI as a coding assistant, we're rethinking the entire development lifecycle, combining human judgement with agentic systems to deliver high-quality customer experiences faster and more effectively.

Our mission is to build the next generation of digital experiences while proving a new model for software delivery, where engineers spend less time on repetitive implementation and more time on architecture, design decisions, quality and engineering judgement.

The Role

Build the services and APIs that power the next generation of digital experiences. You'll define the systems, APIs and shared services that sit at the centre of Frontier's architecture. You'll help create the foundations that enable consistent experiences across web, iOS and Android while contributing to a new AI-driven engineering model.

What you'll do

• Design APIs, contracts and shared services
• Build server-side architecture for web and mobile experiences
• Own domain modelling and systems design
• Drive integration and contract testing practicesBuild scalable, observable and secure backend services
• Contribute to AI-enabled engineering workflows
• Define backend standards and engineering patterns

What you'll bring

• Strong experience designing and building APIs, services and backend systems at scale
• Expertise in domain modelling, integrations and distributed architectures
• Experience with cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code and modern engineering practices
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve delivery outcomes
• A passion for solving complex technical problems and building scalable foundations
• Comfortable working in ambiguity, learning quickly and helping shape a brand-new way of building software

What you'll get

Not only will you receive an awesome candidate experience from our caring Talent team, but you'll get a genuine feel for who we are and what it's like to be part of our team.

The benefits of working with The Lottery Corporation are pretty good. Just to name a few:

• Balance work and life with our 'flex for great outcomes' approach - hybrid working, plus a range of generous leave options.
• Reward and recognition programs at all levels. Your hard work won't go unnoticed.
• Ignite your potential with our dedicated learning and development platform to support your bright future.
• We empower careers to grow from within. 50% of all roles in 2025 were filled by our own people, proving that your next opportunity is already here!
• A true sense of belonging. We're committed to Inclusion & Diversity with a range of initiatives such as our Gender Affection Support, employee inclusion networks and diversity memberships and celebrations.
• Make positive impacts with opportunities to volunteer with our community partners. We'll also dollar match fundraising efforts of our employees lending their support to registered charities.

We're committed to providing a safe, respectful and supportive work environment. We encourage you to let us know if we can make any accommodations, so the process can be more user friendly for you.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional custodians of the lands on which our offices, retail outlets and venues operate. We acknowledge the inextricable link First Peoples of Australia have with the land past and present.