Staff Engineer - Identity & Access Management (IAM) Sydney

SustainRecruit; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SustainRecruit is partnering with a leading Australian financial services organisation to hire a Staff Software Engineer focused on Identity and Access Management (IAM) in Sydney. This hands-on leadership role shapes authentication, API platforms and scalable security architectures for customer platforms.

You will mentor engineers, define technical direction, collaborate with security and product stakeholders, and raise engineering standards across business-critical systems. On-site in Sydney.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering is essential.
• Experience building production applications, APIs or distributed systems.
• Strong Java/Spring Boot backend proficiency.
• Experience with cloud, microservices, CI/CD and modern engineering practices.
• Understanding of authentication/authorization, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect or API security.
• Experience designing highly available, business-critical platforms.
• Ability to influence decisions and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable identity and authentication services.
• Lead technical architecture across APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Build and enhance identity, access management and API integration platforms.
• Drive engineering excellence in code quality, testing, reliability and automation.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction across teams.
• Collaborate with engineering, platform, security and product stakeholders.

Skills

Hands-on eng

Production apps

Java/Spring Boot

Cloud & microservices

CI/CD practices

API security

Job description

Staff Engineer - Identity & Access Management (IAM) Sydney

Build the platforms that securely connect millions of customers to critical digital services.

We're partnering with a leading Australian financial services organisation seeking an accomplished Staff Software Engineer to help shape its next generation of customer identity, authentication and API platforms.
This is a highly technical, hands‑on engineering position, offering the opportunity to influence architecture, solve complex engineering challenges and establish engineering standards across business‑critical platforms.

The opportunity

• Design and develop scalable, secure, high-performance identity and authentication services.
• Lead technical architecture across APIs, microservices and distributed systems.
• Build and enhance customer identity, access management and API integration platforms.
• Drive engineering excellence across code quality, testing, reliability and automation.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
• Work closely with engineering, platform, security and product stakeholders.

Build the platforms that securely connect millions of customers to critical digital services.

We're partnering with a leading Australian financial services organisation seeking an accomplished Staff Software Engineer to help shape its next generation of customer identity, authentication and API platforms.
This is a highly technical, hands‑on engineering position, offering the opportunity to influence architecture, solve complex engineering challenges and establish engineering standards across business‑critical platforms.

The opportunity

• Design and develop scalable, secure, high-performance identity and authentication services.
• Lead technical architecture across APIs, microservices and distributed systems.
• Build and enhance customer identity, access management and API integration platforms.
• Drive engineering excellence across code quality, testing, reliability and automation.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
• Work closely with engineering, platform, security and product stakeholders.

What we're looking for

• A strong background in hands‑on software engineering is essential.
• Significant experience developing production applications, APIs or distributed systems.
• Strong programming capability, ideally Java, Spring Boot or similar backend technologies.
• Experience with cloud platforms, microservices, CI/CD and modern engineering practices.
• Understanding of authentication, authorisation, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect or API security.
• Experience designing and supporting highly available, business‑critical platforms.
• Ability to influence technical decisions and mentor engineers.

Previous experience in banking, financial services or large‑scale digital platforms would be advantageous.

Important: This is a software engineering leadership position, not a traditional IAM administration or security governance role.

Why consider it? You'll help shape the technical direction of critical customer‑facing platforms within a highly respected financial services technology environment, with the opportunity to work on complex engineering challenges at significant scale.

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