Senior Software Engineer - AI Applications

Team: Objective

Location: Sydney

Commitment: Full time

Workplace Type: hybrid

Build AI into the products that power government!

What You'll Be Doing

• Build AI-powered applications: Design and develop intelligent features and services that integrate large language models (LLMs) into enterprise software.
• Engineer with Python: Build scalable backend services, APIs and integrations using Python, alongside modern frontend technologies such as Svelte or React.
• Work with modern AI frameworks: Apply technologies such as LangChain, LangGraph, LiteLLM and similar tools to develop AI-enabled applications and workflows.
• Build for production: Develop reliable, secure and maintainable AI services with appropriate testing, monitoring and cloud deployment practices.
• Shape our AI platform: Contribute to the architecture and development of reusable AI capabilities that can be leveraged across multiple Objective products.
• Own technical delivery: Take complex engineering challenges from design and development through to deployment and continuous improvement.
• Influence engineering decisions: Collaborate with product teams, engineers and technical leaders to help establish strong engineering practices for AI-enabled software.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for an experienced software engineer who combines strong engineering fundamentals with practical AI application development experience.

Your experience will include:

• Strong commercial software engineering experience, with advanced Python development skills.
• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs or generative AI capabilities into software applications, ideally in production environments.
• Experience working with AI application frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LiteLLM or equivalent technologies.
• Strong backend engineering skills, including API development, microservices and database programming.
• Experience developing and deploying cloud-based applications using AWS and/or Azure.
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Svelte or similar.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, automated testing, CI/CD and secure development practices.
• The ability to independently solve complex technical problems and contribute to engineering design decisions.

Experience we'd particularly value:

• Building AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions or LLM-powered workflows.
• Working with model orchestration, AI infrastructure or reusable AI services.
• Improving the performance, reliability and scalability of AI-enabled applications.
• Experience building enterprise SaaS products or shared technology platforms.

Why Join This Team?

You'll be part of a team developing AI capabilities that extend beyond a single application, helping shape how intelligent technologies are adopted across Objective's product ecosystem.

• Meaningful technical ownership: Influence how AI services are designed, developed and integrated into our products.
• Real-world AI engineering: Work on practical AI applications that solve complex enterprise challenges.
• Impact across multiple products: Build capabilities that support teams and customers across our business.
• Purpose-driven technology: Help deliver secure, intelligent software for governments and regulated organisations.
• Room to innovate: Work with emerging technologies while applying strong engineering principles to deliver solutions that are built to last.

If you're an experienced software engineer who enjoys building real-world AI applications and wants to help shape the next generation of GovTech, we'd love to hear from you.