Senior Software Engineer

Senior or Staff software engineering. Happy to lead a team, happy to be an individual contributor.
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Status
Actively looking
Not looking
Open to new opportunities
Previously hired through SkillsRobin
Location
Melbourne
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Open to relocating
Commitment
Full-time, Casual / Contract / Part-time
Availability from time of offer
In 1 month or less
Experience
7+ years
 experience
Top 3 programming languages/frameworks
TypeScript, Python, React
Also knows
AWS, Bedrock, Bitbucket, C#, CDK, Cloudflare, CloudFormation, CloudFront, CSS, css, Cypress, Datadog, Django, Django REST Framework, Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Drizzle, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, ELK Stack, Emotion, esbuild, ESLint, Expo, Express, Express.js, Figma, Firebase, Flask, GCP, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitLab, GitLab CI, Google Cloud Platform, HTML, html, Java, JavaScript, Jenkins, Jest, jQuery, JS, JSON, Kafka, Koa, Lambda, LaunchDarkly, Linux, Logstash, Material-UI, Matplotlib, matplotlib, Memcached, memcached, MERN, MobX, Mocha, MongoDB, MySQL, Neo4j, NestJS, Netlify, New Relic, Next, Next.js, Nginx, Node, Node.js, NodeJS GraphQL Docker, npm, NumPy, OpenAI API, OpenAI APIs, OpenAPI, Pandas, Parcel, Playwright, pnpm, Podman, PostgreSQL, Postman, Prettier, Prisma, Pulumi, Python, python, PyTorch, React, react, React Native, Redis, Redux, REST, Rollup, S3, Sass/SCSS, scikit-learn, Seaborn, Selenium, Sentry, Sequelize, Shell/Bash, Snyk, Splunk, Spring, Spring Boot, SQL, sql, SQL React, SQLAlchemy, SQLite, Styled Components, Supabase, Svelte, Swagger, Tailwind CSS, Tailwind, TDD, Terraform, Testing Library, tRPC, TS, Turbopack, TypeORM, TypeScript, Vercel, Vite, Vitest, Vue, Vue.js, Webpack, WebSockets, XGBoost, yarn, Zustand
Preferred work environment
Hybrid, Fully remote
Strengths
Interested in working involving
I've worked across 1-person startups to multinational orgs - happy to be anywhere doing something interesting!
Not interested in work involving

Other information
Able to work in Australia without visa sponsorship
Requires visa sponsorship to work in Australia

Pay expectations

Full-time
$
180000
per year
Casual / Contract
$
per hour
Pay is negotiable in exchange for equity
Pay is negotiable in exchange for equity
Pay is not negotiable in exchange for equity
Open to volunteering or working for equity only
Not interested in volunteering or working for equity only if joining as a co-founder

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Work experience

Proudest professional achievement

Senior Software Engineer

Large-scale Marketplace Platform (Hirer Monetisation)

  • Delivered key revenue-driving initiatives including Loyalty Contracts Remodelling, Enhanced Job Posting, Reference Checks, and Add-Ons re-architecture
  • Key contributor to systems processing all online financial transactions, operating under zero-downtime constraints
  • Reduced time-to-release from 2 days to 2 hours by refactoring a complex product rules engine, improving testability and feature bundling logic
  • Ramped rapidly on a highly complex, business-logic-heavy codebase with deep institutional knowledge
  • Mentored junior developers, improving code quality and unblocking delivery
  • Delivered internal tech talks on AWS CDK, GraphQL, DynamoDB testing strategies, and Datadog observability

Technical Founder

AI Sales Automation Platform (PropTech)

  • Built an AI-powered sales automation platform for real estate agents, processing calls, SMS, and email to automate follow-ups, scheduling, marketing, and lead scoring
  • Designed a real-time voice pipeline to analyse live calls and voicemails, determine lead intent and urgency, and trigger automated or manual actions
  • Early trials demonstrated 20–30% reduction in outbound prospecting time
  • Built a custom agentic AI framework on Amazon Bedrock for intent classification, call summarisation, and personalised script generation

Senior Software Engineer

Global EdTech Platform – Large-Scale Acquisition Migration

  • Member of a dedicated tiger team migrating a large education platform into a parent organisation with zero downtime
  • Built automated migration tooling enabling seamless, component-by-component cutovers
  • Coordinated development and releases across 5+ time zones, aligning teams with independent microservices and workflows
  • Early contributor and long-term maintainer of internal npm packages for Kafka data stream integration, adopted across all migration teams
  • Implemented large-scale, event-driven processing using Kafka and AWS cloud-native services

Lead Software Engineer

Regulated FinTech Investment Platform

  • Led a 4-person engineering team with full ownership of frontend and backend systems (excluding trading engine)
  • Scaled an AFSL-compliant investment platform from 0 to 5,000+ active users
  • Shipped a hybrid React Native / ReactJS app to both App Store and Play Store
  • Built real-time portfolio updates via websocket subscriptions with minute-level accuracy
  • Architected serverless AWS infrastructure (Lambda, Cognito, AppSync GraphQL, RDS Postgres)
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and automated testing using Cypress, Jest, and Detox
  • Provided ongoing mentorship and professional development for junior engineers

Senior Software Engineer

Enterprise Forms & Workflow Platform

  • Built a fully config-driven application form system (React + REST API), enabling non-technical teams to update business logic without code changes
  • Designed and delivered a back-office portal for form review and workflow design, alongside a B2B client self-service portal
  • Automated frontend testing using Jest, React Testing Library, and Cypress
  • Automated deployments to AWS Beanstalk, ECS, S3, and CloudFront using Docker and Bitbucket Pipelines
  • Integrated with a legacy Java Spring RPC API, maintaining compatibility during a full backend rewrite
  • Migrated on-prem VPN infrastructure to AWS Site-to-Site VPN and Client VPN to meet strict security requirements

Sessional Academic / Teaching Associate

University Computer Science Department

  • Delivered tutorials for Programming Paradigms and Algorithms & Programming Fundamentals
  • Taught functional programming concepts using TypeScript and Haskell, and algorithms and data structures in Python
  • Conducted weekly student interviews and one-on-one mentoring sessions
  • Marked assignments and provided detailed written and verbal feedback

Frontend Engineer

Communications Platform (CPaaS)

  • Frontend developer on greenfield web applications for a communications platform
  • Built applications using React, Redux, Redux Saga, TypeScript, SCSS, ESNext
  • Integrated AliPay payment gateway
  • Deployed and maintained services on on-prem infrastructure using Kubernetes, K3S, and Docker
  • Automated testing with Jest, RTL, and Cypress; CI/CD via GitLab and Jenkins
  • UI/UX prototyping in Figma and Adobe XD

Full-Stack Engineer

Medical Education SaaS Platform

  • Solo engineer extending functionality of an existing medical education platform
  • Worked with Siemens PEPConnect (USA) to deliver their first officially integrated education platform
  • Automated data de-identification compliant with Australian Privacy Act and HIPAA, saving weeks of manual effort
  • Frontend development using Vue, React, SCSS, cornerstonejs; payments via Stripe
  • Backend development using Node.js, Python, PHP, MySQL, and WordPress REST API
  • Built event-driven data pipelines using Node.js and Google App Engine
  • Acted as technical representative in stakeholder and partnership meetings

Software Engineer

Algorithmic Trading & Analytics Platform

  • Designed and launched automated trading testers and result analysers using GCP App Engine and Compute Engine
  • Designed, prototyped, and filed a patent for a no-code automated trading strategy creation system
  • Automated key internal business processes, saving 6+ weeks of development time
  • Provided final-tier support for VIP clients and internal trading teams
  • Frontend development using React, Redux, TypeScript, Webpack, Gulp
  • Backend development using Node.js, Python, MongoDB, .NET Core, MySQL, and ANTLR

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology majoring in Software Development, from Monash University
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