Senior Software Engineer Lead - AI-Driven, Hybrid + Equity

Talent; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Potential equity participation

Hybrid and flexible working

Job summary

Talent International is recruiting a Senior Software Engineer for a fast-growing Australian fintech/payments technology company. You will influence architecture, review code and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on, delivering production-grade features across the stack.

The role splits ~50/50 between hands-on development and driving engineering excellence, with hybrid Sydney CBD work and collaboration with founders, product and design teams to scale the platform.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Staff Engineer or Technical Lead.
• Strong backend engineering expertise, ideally within Python-based environments.
• Excellent CS fundamentals including software design, algorithms and data structures.
• Experience designing and building scalable production systems.
• Strong code review and technical leadership capability.
• Comfortable influencing technical direction and challenging ideas constructively.
• Experience working in high-performing engineering environments.
• Passion for leveraging AI tools to improve software development productivity and quality.

Responsibilities

• Deliver production-grade features across the stack, with a strong focus on backend development
• Lead code reviews and establish best practices across the engineering function
• Contribute to architecture and system design discussions
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to deliver customer-focused solutions
• Drive adoption of modern AI-assisted development practices and tooling
• Mentor junior engineers and help elevate technical standards
• Own projects end-to-end from design through deployment and optimisation

Skills

Senior Software Engineer experience

Backend engineering

Python-based environments

Software design fundamentals

Code review leadership

AI tooling in development

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Python

Flask

FastAPI

React

TypeScript

Cloud-native architectures

SQL databases

Job description

Talent International is recruiting a Senior Software Engineer for a fast-growing Australian fintech/payments technology company. You will influence architecture, review code and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on, delivering production-grade features across the stack.

The role splits ~50/50 between hands-on development and driving engineering excellence, with hybrid Sydney CBD work and collaboration with founders, product and design teams to scale the platform.