Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack (.NET / React, Next.js)

Location: Sydney CBD Area

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

• You are a Staff Software Engineer looking for a product engineer-focussed role

• We are looking for a full stack engineer with strong technical leadership

• Together we will create home lending products our customers will love 

About the Role

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer who excels at building impactful products and driving technical excellence within a Product Operating Model. You will lead within cross-functional, empowered teams, working as a key member of the product trio alongside Product and Design leaders. Your role extends significantly beyond coding: you will drive technical strategy, mentor engineers across teams, and influence product direction at an organisational level. 

We value a "product engineer" mindset combined with technical leadership - where you balance product success, user experience, and technical excellence. We expect you to be an influential communicator who drives alignment across teams and demonstrates technical leadership across the organisation. 

What You'll Do

• Lead multiple "core trios" and drive technical strategy across product areas, deeply understanding complex business problems and architecting scalable solutions.

• Define and/or maintain technical architecture and engineering standards across teams, providing strategic technical leadership.

• Drive ownership across multiple product areas and complex technical initiatives, from strategic planning to execution and optimisation.

• Establish and evolve engineering standards, practices, and culture - driving quality excellence across teams.

• Identify and lead major technical, AI-related, and process transformation initiatives.

• Mentor and develop engineers, fostering technical excellence and growth across the organisation.

• Drive technical decision-making in ambiguous, high-stakes situations and lead organisational change initiatives.

• Represent engineering in executive discussions and external technical community.

• Active contributions in the technical forums, cross team collaboration etc to help in building the engineering culture.

• Taking the accountability of end to end technical delivery of the products owned by the squad (DevSecOps model – you build you own & run)

• Active contribution in driving the tech initiatives, POCs which are aligned to the tech strategy & Tech OKRs. 

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Lead solution design and technical delivery for the Lending/ Credit Risk value stream, acting as the engineering SME for scalable, secure, cloud-native platforms.

• Stay hands-on delivering full-stack features across .NET/.NET Core, C#, SQL, and API integrations within AWS/ cloud environment

• Deliver consistent engineering patterns, standards and best practices

• Own and optimise end-to-end customer journeys, designing solutions that remove pain points and create seamless digital experiences.

• Architect high-performance microservices and data-access layers with a focus on resilience, scalability and quality.

• Champion DevSecOps excellence CI/CD, automated testing, cloud pipelines, observability, secure coding and operational readiness (you build, you run).

• Partner closely with product, design and business teams, while mentoring engineers and uplifting modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development.

Tech skills

• Languages & Frameworks: Deep expertise in C#, .NET/.NET Core, MVC, Web API, with some exposure to modern JavaScript frameworks like NextJS

• Cloud & Architecture: Advanced AWS cloud-native engineering, microservices design, distributed systems, and scalable API architectures(REST).

• Databases: Proficient with PostgreSQL and Oracle, including schema design, optimisation, and robust data-access patterns.

• DevOps & Automation: Strong CI/CD engineering using GitHub Actions and/or TeamCity, with a focus on automation, quality, and DevSecOps principles.

• Containers & Runtime: Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes for orchestration, deployment, and cloud-native operations.

• Monitoring & Observability: Solid understanding of Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, and AWS CloudWatch for proactive monitoring and operational excellence.

• AI-Enhanced Engineering: Exposure to GenAI tools such as Cline, Cursor, and AWS Bedrock, with awareness of AI/ML and LLM concepts to integrate intelligent capabilities. 

If the above sounds like you, apply now!