Senior Software Engineer – Platform Architecture & Leadership

etrainu; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

etrainu is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead design and implementation of scalable systems within a product engineering team. You will drive projects from concept to delivery, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to maintain high engineering standards.

You will design architectures for medium-to-large features, ensure non-functional requirements are met, and own production readiness responsibilities including monitoring and incident response.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to design and implement scalable software systems.
• Experience building RESTful microservice architectures in cloud environments.
• Strong DevOps mindset including CI/CD, automation, and secure practices.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading medium to large projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design for medium-to-large features from concept to delivery.
• Architect projects with attention to scalability, security, performance and cost.
• Translate product problems into technical plans and data-driven decisions.
• Write clean, tested, maintainable code and enforce high review standards.
• Own features end-to-end including monitoring, incident response, and production support.
• Improve CI/CD, automation, security, testing and debt management.

Skills

System design

REST APIs

DevOps

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

MongoDB

CI/CD

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

etrainu is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead design and implementation of scalable systems within a product engineering team. You will drive projects from concept to delivery, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to maintain high engineering standards.

You will design architectures for medium-to-large features, ensure non-functional requirements are met, and own production readiness responsibilities including monitoring and incident response.