Senior Software Engineer - Dayrate upto $1100pd

Preacta Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Preacta Recruitment is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build AI-powered infrastructure for a leading Australian digital platform. You will shape architecture and deliver high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems at scale in a cloud-native environment.

The role focuses on platform engineering and backend services, owning features end-to-end from design to production; you will work with senior engineers and product teams to drive quality and reuse across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Strong Java and Spring Boot experience with microservices and distributed systems.
• Experience designing and owning integration and service layers in a platform or shared services context.
• Solid understanding of event-driven architecture, ideally with Kafka or similar messaging systems.
• Cloud-native engineering depth across AWS and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Own platform services end-to-end from design through production monitoring and incident response.
• Collaborate with senior engineers and product teams to design reusable platform capabilities.
• Modernise legacy services and drive engineering quality standards across the organisation.
• Contribute to a 3-year roadmap with AI-enabled tooling initiatives built on the platform.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Cloud AWS

Kubernetes

Platform thinking

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Dayrate upto $1100pd

• Join a high-impact software engineering team building the AI-powered infrastructure behind one of Australia's most advanced digital platforms.
• Long-term contracts (12-month project) paying a daily rate of up to $1,100!

• Join a high-impact software engineering team building the AI-powered infrastructure behind one of Australia's most advanced digital platforms.
• Long-term contracts (12-month project) paying a daily rate of up to $1,100!

Join a growing platform engineering team at a major Australian digital platform, building the distributed infrastructure that powers product capabilities used by millions of customers every day.

This team owns the layer that sits between core systems and every downstream engineering team across the organisation. Instead of each product team solving complex integration challenges independently, this platform provides clean, reusable, well-designed services that accelerate delivery across the entire engineering organisation. The work is high-impact, high-visibility, and depended on by teams across the business.

The environment is fully cloud-native, leveraging Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS to deliver high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems at scale. Engineers joining now are shaping the architecture, not inheriting someone else's decisions.

This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and backend services, owning services end-to-end from design through to production monitoring and incident response. You will contribute to a genuine build agenda with a 3-year roadmap of identified work, including AI-enabled tooling initiatives being built on top of the platform.

You will work closely with senior engineers and product teams to design reusable platform capabilities, modernise legacy services, and drive engineering quality standards across the organisation.

What we are looking for:

• Strong Java and Spring Boot experience with a focus on microservices and distributed systems
• Experience designing and owning integration and service layers in a platform or shared services context
• Solid understanding of event-driven architecture, ideally with Kafka or similar messaging systems
• Cloud-native engineering depth across AWS and Kubernetes
• A platform engineering mindset, comfortable building for multiple consumers rather than a single product team

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At the heart of our culture, we actively encourage people to try new things.