Senior Software Engineer - Hands-on Architect (Remote AU)

Morgan Consulting; Sydney; Remote; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Consulting is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to guide the next stage of its platform. You’ll work directly with the CTO, stay hands-on, and influence architecture, technical decisions and engineering practices.

This is an individual-contributor role, with no direct reports, ideal for a Senior Engineer seeking more influence or a Staff/Tech Lead who wants to remain hands-on and hands-on mentoring is part of the remit.

Qualifications

• Around 10+ years of commercial software-engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on TypeScript and Node.js skills.
• Experience designing backend services, APIs, data models.
• Solid React.js / React Native experience.
• Experience making meaningful architecture or system-design decisions.
• Ownership of technically complex work from design through to production.
• Experience mentoring engineers and improving standards across a team.

Responsibilities

• Designing and delivering changes across backend services, APIs and frontend applications.
• Taking ownership of complex technical problems that don’t have an obvious answer.
• Helping shape architecture and longer-term platform decisions.
• Investigating difficult production issues and helping prevent them from happening again.
• Making practical trade-offs between technical quality, delivery time and business priorities.
• Improving testing, code quality, documentation and development practices.
• Mentoring engineers through code reviews, design discussions and day-to-day guidance.
• Sharing technical knowledge and reducing reliance on individual team members.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

React

React Native

AWS

SQL

APIs

Mentoring

Architecture decisions

Tools

CI/CD

Relational databases

Job description

Morgan Consulting is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to guide the next stage of its platform. You’ll work directly with the CTO, stay hands-on, and influence architecture, technical decisions and engineering practices.

This is an individual-contributor role, with no direct reports, ideal for a Senior Engineer seeking more influence or a Staff/Tech Lead who wants to remain hands-on and hands-on mentoring is part of the remit.