Staff Software Engineer

NextPlay; Sydney; On-site; AUD 499,000 - 684,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package

Visa sponsorship

Equity

Job summary

NextPlay in San Francisco is hiring senior and staff software engineers to design, build and ship generative AI products across the stack. Relocation and visa are fully covered, with equity on offer and a fast-paced, collaborative team culture.

Roles span full stack, front end and back end, with ownership of meaningful features from day one and a focus on delivering product-impact work at scale.

Qualifications

• Elite backend engineer with track record of end-to-end ownership.
• Experience shipping in production with LLMs and AI tools.
• Ability to work at startup pace and impact.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and ship generative AI products from frontend to backend.
• Own features end to end with real product impact.
• Move fast and deliver within tight timelines.
• Work with latest models in production and AI tooling daily.
• Influence product direction as part of the engineering team.

Skills

Backend engineering

LLMs in production

First principles thinking

End-to-end ownership

Startup experience

Tools

AI frameworks

Job description

Incredible opportunity to relocate to San Francisco

Full relocation and visa

Roles range from Senior to Staff level Software Engineer

Full stack, front end, back end, multiple opportunities available

Join a leading AI company in the valley

Salaries are

Senior: $350,000- $400,000 USD + equity

Staff: $400,000 - $480,000 USD + equity

Are you a senior or staff engineer in Australia who's wondered what it'd be like to be building AI in San Francisco? This is a genuine opportunity to make that move. A Series B AI company, scaling fast, doing work at the actual frontier of it.

You've shipped real product, owned things end to end, and you're the kind of engineer who gets judged on the quality of what you ship, not how many meetings you sit in. You've built features and products zero to one, and you thrive when you have full ownership of the outcome. What if the next thing you built was at a company whose product already outperforms human experts at their own job, and the move to go do it was completely sorted?

Whether you're front end, back end or full stack, senior or staff level, keep reading.

The company

A Series B AI company, backed by some of the best investors in the world. Their product is used every day by some of the biggest companies on the planet, and when it goes head to head against human experts doing the same work, it wins.

The team is small, fast and seriously good. Everyone's in the office together in San Francisco, and the people who work there talk about each other more like mates than colleagues. The engineering team is scaling hard, which is why these roles are open.

They don't hire for a stack. They hire engineers who think from first principles, ship fast, and care more about impact than about the tools they use to get there.

The role

• You'd design, build and ship generative AI products that solve problems no one's solved before. The stack runs from polished interfaces at the front, through backend systems that process millions of documents, to LLM pipelines, data extraction and clustering in between.
• Own your work end to end. Real features, real parts of the product, yours to call. Not one small piece of a fifty person machine.
• Build things that are genuinely new. This team has a habit of getting to market before anyone else does.
• Move fast. Engineers merge their first pull request on day one and are running their own part of the product within three months.
• Use AI to build AI. You'd work with the latest models in production and use AI tools as part of how you build every day.
• Have a say that counts. Engineers here shape where the product goes, not just what gets built.

What you'll bring

• You're a strong engineer who cares more about impact than about any particular language or framework. You'll ship the pragmatic 80/20 answer over the perfect one.
• You are an elite backend Engineer with extensive experience with algorithms and an outstanding track record of achievement
• You've owned things end to end, ideally something close to zero to one. You know what it takes to build something from nothing and get it into the hands of real users.You've worked at startup pace, or you're someone who'd clearly come alive in it. You'd rather ship something good today than something perfect next month.
• You've used LLMs in production, not just had a play with them. You know the difference between a demo and a product.
• You've got strong engineering fundamentals. The bar here is high, and the work rewards people who think from first principles.

The move and the package

The team builds in person and has an incredible culture around it. Friendly and supportive, and they genuinely enjoy hanging out. Social activities, team dinners, the kind of place where your colleagues become your mates.

The whole move from Australia is completely taken care of. Flights, relocation and the visa, fully supported. medical cover included.

They're hiring senior and staff engineers across full stack, front end and back end. You might work across the whole stack, but if your strength sits on one side, that's fine too.