Senior Staff Backend Engineer — Go/Node on AWS Serverless

oOh!media Limited; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Modern offices and transport access

Competitive salary + bonus

Career development opportunities

Parental leave & wellbeing support

Job summary

oOh!media Limited is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Sydney to own a core commercial domain that handles inventory availability and campaign scheduling across our national network. You will lead architecture, be hands-on with Golang/Node.js, and drive platform modernization while mentoring engineers.

The role emphasizes high-throughput backend problems, strong observability, and secure, scalable designs.

Qualifications

• Proven staff or senior backend experience with hands-on delivery.
• Strong backend knowledge in Golang or Node.js and AWS.
• Experience with high-throughput, event-driven architectures.
• Ability to lead without formal authority and mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Own technical strategy, architecture and roadmaps for a core domain.
• Deliver complex backend work and establish reusable patterns.
• Design for correctness, data integrity and performance at scale.
• Establish observability, SLIs/SLOs for critical paths.
• Lead platform modernization and service migrations.
• Advance CI/CD, automated testing and safe deployments.
• Review designs, mentor engineers and shape engineering standards.
• Provide input on delivery commitments and domain discussions.
• Champion AI-assisted tooling to boost productivity and quality.

Skills

Golang

Node.js

Backend architecture

Leadership

Distributed systems

Observability

AWS

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS Lambda

SQS

SNS

EventBridge

DynamoDB

Aurora

AWS CDK

CI/CD tooling

Job description

oOh!media Limited is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Sydney to own a core commercial domain that handles inventory availability and campaign scheduling across our national network. You will lead architecture, be hands-on with Golang/Node.js, and drive platform modernization while mentoring engineers.

The role emphasizes high-throughput backend problems, strong observability, and secure, scalable designs.