Staff Engineer - Architecture Lead, Ads Platform (Sydney)

Cartology

Sydney

Hybrid

AUD 180,000 - 270,000

Full time

11 days ago
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Team Discounts
Wellness program via Sonder

Job summary

Cartology, Sydney-based within the Woolworths Group, is seeking a Staff Engineer to own the architecture of Ads Manager as it scales. You will lead the technical roadmap for event-driven services spanning campaign data delivery and measurement, while mentoring engineers and delivering reusable, high-quality components.

This role emphasizes hands-on coding, collaboration with JVM backends and React/TypeScript front ends, and building observable, durable APIs across teams in a hybrid Sydney

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in software engineering with architectural scope.
  • Deep Kotlin/Java expertise and JVM memory/concurrency knowledge.
  • Experience with event-driven design and distributed systems.
  • Hands-on GCP exposure; Kubernetes, BigQuery and data delivery pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve architecture for Ads Manager services at scale.
  • Lead technical roadmap across multiple teams and partner integrations.
  • Set coding and testing standards; enable maintainable, observable systems.
  • Guide front-end/API coherence with React/TypeScript front ends.

Skills

Leadership
Architecture
Java/Kotlin
Distributed systems
Code review
Team mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Spring Boot
Ktor
GKE / Kubernetes
BigQuery
Terraform
GitHub Actions
TypeScript/React

Job description

Cartology, Sydney-based within the Woolworths Group, is seeking a Staff Engineer to own the architecture of Ads Manager as it scales. You will lead the technical roadmap for event-driven services spanning campaign data delivery and measurement, while mentoring engineers and delivering reusable, high-quality components.

This role emphasizes hands-on coding, collaboration with JVM backends and React/TypeScript front ends, and building observable, durable APIs across teams in a hybrid Sydney

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