API Engineer (AU)

Location: Sydney, Australia

Department: Embedded Software Interfaces

About the role
DroneShield is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Embedded Software Interfaces (ESI) team, passionately focused on helping our internal and external customers to interface with our Embedded devices using robust and performant APIs.

Our products enable a seamless and performant user experience for DroneShield customers to use our world leading RF detect and defeat capabilities to protect their assets. It represents an exceptional opportunity for a result-driven individual in a new niche but exploding market.

Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations 

• Build new features and capabilities daily in a complex Embedded micro-services environment
• Collaborate with other engineers and designers between Embedded, frontend, and customer tech stacks
• Write and review code with best practices of readability, testing patterns, documentation, reliability, security, and performance considerations in mind.
• Drive strong outcomes around test driven development to enhance API product quality and performance
• Own an Agile development mindset, appreciating the benefit of constant improvement, and participating in rituals such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, team retrospectives, backlog grooming
• Ensure software is designed for reliability, and performance on resource constrained targets
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver on user and business requirements

Qualifications, Experience and Skills 

• 5+ years experience building backend and API applications
• Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for a Software Engineering, or Computer Science background
• Proficiency in web-based applications and architecture, crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant gRPC and REST micro-services.
• Expertise in developing performant production quality backend services in Go and/or Python
• Demonstrated passion for collaboration and strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong communication skills in written and verbal forms, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of technical and non-technical audiences (management, peers, clients).
• Broad knowledge and understanding of micro-service architectures with basic hands-on experience operating in Linux environments.
• Familiarity with quality API and backend architecture patterns

 What sets you apart

• Experience working in API development in a medium-large scale SaaS organisation
• Experience working closely with ambiguous and complex customer requirements, being able to navigate uncertainty, to develop high quality and innovative solutions.
• Comfortable on the command line in a Linux first environment
• Software development experience in Python, Golang, Modern C++ (2 languages preferred)
• Application development with cross-cutting concerns (logging, persistence, security, configuration management, transactional behaviour).
• Desirable skills: Development of applications for Linux based embedded devices
• Inter-device communication using gRPC, REST, raw TCP/UDP, or other high performance messaging protocols
• Development tools including Git, Jira, Confluence, CICD
  
  

Note for recruitment agencies: We do not accept unsolicited candidates from external recruiters unless specifically instructed.

About the Company

Work with cutting edge AI technology, making the world a safer and more secure place. DroneShield (ASX:DRO) offers an opportunity to solve some of world’s most challenging technical problems in the rapidly growing counterdrone sector.  

Our customers are some of the most demanding in the world, including militaries, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure, law enforcement and many others. The counterdrone sector is rapidly changing, with DroneShield being in an arms race against state-backed drone manufacturers globally.  

With one of the largest listed defence company market capitalisations in Australia, now part of the ASX200 index, DroneShield is experiencing a period of hypergrowth. Revenue has surged from A$57 million in 2024 to over A$217 million in 2025, representing growth of more than 400% year-on-year, with record profitability and cashflow. The total addressable global market for counterdrone is assessed at approximately $100 billion, and is currently at the nascent stage with much of the growth still to come, with DroneShield well positioned as a global market leader, and the only public listed pure-play business in this sector.  

The company has grown from 11 employees in 2017 to over 450 staff globally today, and is on track to reach around 550 by the end of 2026. This expansion includes investment of over A$50 million annually in R&D, a global pipeline exceeding A$2.5 billion, and continuous scaling of production capacity to meet accelerating demand. 

The role is based at DroneShield’s central Sydney headquarters. Overseas on-the-ground presence includes Virginia (USA), Netherlands, Denmark, Mexico and Dubai, as well as distributors in over 70 countries worldwide.