Staff Engineer, Back End

Greenstone Financial Services; Geehi; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexi days

Flexible working

Travel/parking allowance

On-site gym

Employee benefits

Job summary

Greenstone Financial Services is seeking a Staff Engineer to help domain teams design scalable backend solutions and drive architectural consistency. You will collaborate with the Principal Engineer to evolve blueprints and guardrails, and you will contribute hands-on to unblock delivery and reduce technical risk.

The role focuses on advancing a cloud-native platform uplift across teams. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-language development, and agile

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with shipped products.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks.
• Extensive system design and architecture experience for large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong database knowledge (relational and NoSQL).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), containers, and serverless architectures.
• Experience with design, orchestration, testing, build, release, and monitoring tools.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
• Strong technical leadership and decision-making abilities.
• Customer-first mindset balancing technical priorities with delivery pace.
• Excellent problem-solving and strategic thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Help domain teams design and implement scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Drive cross-team solution design and architectural alignment.
• Partner with Principal Engineer to evolve solution blueprints and guardrails.
• Provide hands-on contribution to rescue initiatives and reduce tech risk.
• Lead platform uplift toward a decoupled, cloud-native architecture.

Skills

8+ years experience

Programming languages

System design

Large-scale distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Containerization/Kubernetes

Agile methodologies

Technical leadership

Customer-first thinking

Problem-solving

Tools

C#

TypeScript

PowerShell

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

The Staff Engineer is responsible for helping domain teams design and implement effective technical solutions to customer and business problems in a scalable and maintainable way. They drive cross-team solution design to ensure architectural alignment and technical consistency, providing deep backend and platform expertise.

This role reports to the Principal Engineer and partners closely with them to create and evolve solution blueprints (target architectures, patterns, and guardrails) that teams can execute against. When needed, they work directly with product engineering teams to rescue initiatives such as diagnosing issues, unblocking delivery, and reducing technical risk through pragmatic leadership and hands‑on contribution. A key focus of this role is executing the platform uplift strategy toward a decoupled, cloud‑native architecture that increases resilience and responsiveness to change.

What are we looking for?

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong portfolio of shipped products
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages (e.g. C#, TypeScript, PowerShell) and development frameworks
• Extensive experience with system design, architecture, and large-scale distributed systems
• Strong understanding of database technologies, both relational and NoSQL
• Experience with cloud platforms (ideally AWS), containerisation and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), Serverless technologies and event-driven cloud-native architectures
• Experience working with various tools to design, orchestrate, test, build, release & monitor your work
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and processes, e.g. Scrum, Kanban
• Highly developed technical leadership, decision making and influencing skills
• Embraces customer-first thinking and strives to balance technical priorities with pace of delivery
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and strategically

Our Promise to Our People

Benefits

We are passionate about our core values of Customer First, We Care, One Team, and Results Driven, which define how we approach our work. We recognise that our colleagues are the key to our success. That's why you can expect to be rewarded for the hard work you put in through job satisfaction, career development and the fantastic range of benefits we offer:

Fantastic employee benefits including flexi days, flexible working, annual $1200 travel/parking allowance & more.

• State of the art building facilities including a dedicated & subsidised on‑site company café (weekly free lunch) & on‑site gym
• Health & well‑being initiatives and programs
• Opportunity to take part in in‑house leadership & emotional intelligence workshops
• Quarterly award functions and a grand annual conference to recognise our people
• Retail discounts e.g. movie tickets, Zoo passes, live shows + more
• Morsl market (a fully automated self‑serve, food and drink marketplace with a wide variety of meals, snacks and drinks)

Who We Are

Greenstone distributes insurance products under trusted brands in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Some of our brands are Buddy, Australian Seniors, New Zealand Seniors, OneChoice, Real Insurance, SPCA Pet Insurance, North Cover, FiftyUp and Guardian.

We are the leading distributor of direct Insurance products in the Australian insurance market. Since launching into the Financial Services sector in 2007, Greenstone has experienced a commanding volume of growth being recognised for our credible brands, customer focused values and people‑driven work culture.

We are passionate about our core values, which contribute towards the positive culture that supports our employees, our customers and our community.

Location

Great central location in Norwest Business Park, Norwest, only a short walk from Norwest Metro station and also direct bus access from Parramatta and Blacktown.

Website: www.greenstone.com.au