Senior Software/Product Engineer

Product engineer. Ship greenfield end to end, build design systems teams keep working in.
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Status
Actively looking
Not looking
Not looking
Open to new opportunities
Location
Melbourne
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Open to relocating
Commitment
Full-time, Join as a startup co-founder
Availability from time of offer
In 1 month or less
Years of experience
7+ years
Top 3 languages or frameworks
React-native, TypeScript, Ruby
Also knows
Golang, Elixir, Next.js, Cloudflare, tRPC, Zustand, Tailwind, PostgreSQL, Docker, REST
Preferred work environment
Hybrid, Fully remote, In the office
Strengths

I'm at my best turning ambiguity into shipped software. Hand me a vague product, design, or commercial brief and I'll turn it into a technical direction, a plan a team can execute, and working code. That's the thread through my whole career: the engineer founders bring in early to take something from a rough idea to a first version, then hand a team a foundation they can keep building in.

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Three strengths companies hire me for:
End-to-end product engineering. Component-driven frontends, the services and APIs behind them, and the data flow that ties the two together. I own the whole problem, not just the interface on top.

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AI-native delivery. I design LLM features end to end (prompt architecture, orchestration, token efficiency) and build the agentic systems and evaluation loops that keep AI-assisted work reliable once a team depends on it.
Design systems that hold up. Component architecture that survives a product growing in surface area and headcount, giving product, design, and engineering one shared vocabulary.
The common denominator is leverage: I make the team around me faster with reusable patterns, shared standards, and tooling, rather than just shipping my own tickets. Hire me to be the early or lead engineer on an ambiguous, high-stakes product where getting the foundations right matters.

Interested in working involving
I'm after a founding or early engineer role where I own problems end to end, turning a founder's brief into an architecture, shipping the first version, then handing a team something they can keep building in. That's the work I'm best at and enjoy most: partnering with founders and tech leads on ambiguous, high-leverage problems rather than waiting for fully-specced tickets. I'm especially drawn to teams building AI-native products. I've spent the last couple of years designing LLM features end to end, covering prompt architecture, multi-step orchestration, and token efficiency, and I run my own agentic delivery system as a standing experiment in where this tooling goes next. Companies treating agents as core product rather than a bolt-on are where I add the most. Founding seats are rare, so I'm equally open to a senior or lead product engineering role at a more established startup, somewhere past pure survival mode, with real users and room to shape the systems underneath. Industry matters less to me than the team and the problem. My background skews toward AI, fintech/crypto, and e-commerce, and I'd happily go deeper in any of those, or into something new.
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
$
170000
per year
Casual / Contract
$
85
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

Referred by

Pip Bingemann
ceo
July 6, 2026
  •  
I worked with them in the same company on different teams

This developer worked with us for 2 years in a 0-1 stage startup. They are a great fullstack engineer with strength in front end + has good eye on design. They are curious and always looking for better ways to get things done and easy to work with. Highly recommended and sure will get snapped up soon!

Work experience

Proudest professional achievement
Inside a production SaaS codebase, I built a repo-local agentic development harness: versioned skills, task templates, checklists, and validation scripts that carry a Linear ticket or Figma handoff through planning, implementation, validation, and a pull request, then post the test-deploy link back on the original issue. Approval gates sit at every step, so AI-assisted work stays consistent and safe to ship, and a new engineer can pick it up from one entry file in under fifteen minutes. I'm proud of it because it solved the real problem with AI-assisted development, which isn't generating code, it's keeping that code reliable, reviewable, and consistent once a team depends on it. Rather than lean on a black-box tool, I put the judgment into versioned, human-readable skills and kept the orchestration thin, so the team's product intent and review standards stayed in the loop instead of being replaced by them.

Thirteen years as the engineer founders bring in early, across AI, crypto, SaaS, real estate, and e-commerce. I work across the stack and own a problem from architecture through to production.

Software Engineer
AI-powered platform • Nov 2024 - Jul 2026
Designed LLM features end to end: prompt architecture, context handling, multi-step orchestration, and token efficiency, plus the user-facing flows on top
Led a full frontend rewrite into a component-based design system

Software Engineer
E-commerce platform company • May 2023 - Sep 2024
Built a customer-facing theme engine on a hybrid stack, plus the extensibility layer that let third-party developers extend the platform, opening a new revenue line

Technical Lead
Labelling and merchandising company • Nov 2022 - May 2023
Senior technical partner to a non-technical CTO, working down debt across merchandising, deployment, finance integrations, and third-party services while defining an affordable re-architecture

Senior Software Consultant
Software consultancy • Sep 2021 - Mar 2023
Took greenfield products from concept to production for crypto, ed-tech, and e-commerce clients, and mentored junior engineers

Principal Engineer
PropTech startup • Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Built the greenfield platform that ingested large drone-imagery sets, generated 3D renders, and ran AI-assisted analysis to flag faults in physical assets

Software Engineer
Hospitality technology company • Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
Shipped features inside a large monolith and maintained a cross-platform mobile app running in thousands of Australian hotels for in-room ordering

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Education

Bachelor in Business (Majoring in Strategic Speech Communication, Marketing & Advertising)
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Vouched for by

Pip Bingemann
ceo
@
springboards
I worked with them in the same company on different teams

This developer worked with us for 2 years in a 0-1 stage startup. They are a great fullstack engineer with strength in front end + has good eye on design. They are curious and always looking for better ways to get things done and easy to work with. Highly recommended and sure will get snapped up soon!

July 6, 2026

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