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Senior Software Engineer

Squiz

Brisbane

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Squiz is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Discovery domain, focusing on building resilient, secure, and cost-efficient cloud systems for next-generation Conversational Search and Content Intelligence products. The role requires 5+ years of experience with distributed systems, AWS, Node.js, and TypeScript, and offers a flexible hybrid work model on the east coast of Australia.

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Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, AU

Work Model

Hybrid: flexible, balance working from home and collaborating with the team

Experience Required

5 years

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

AWSLambdaAPI GatewayDynamoDBECSFargateAWS CDKTerraformNode.jsTypeScriptCI/CDDevSecOpsAWS Well-Architected FrameworkRAGAWS Bedrock

Soft Skills

pragmaticsystems thinkerengineering rigoroperational excellencecollaborativementorshiptechnical autonomyownership

Preferred Qualifications

Technical (Nice-to-have)

ElasticsearchOpenSearchLLMAIReactJavaScriptCSSDynatraceDataDogAWS CloudWatch

Key Responsibilities

•Take ownership of core services within the Discovery team, ensuring conversational search and content intelligence pipelines are scalable, highly available, and structurally sound
•Design and implement resilient, decoupled distributed systems using event-driven architectures, maintaining clean API boundaries and robust fault tolerance
•Embed DevSecOps practices within the team, integrating automated security scanning, vulnerability management, and strict IAM principles
•Maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines, driving automated testing, reliable deployment strategies, and infrastructure reproducibility
•Participate in FinOps practices, monitoring and optimizing AWS infrastructure spend
•Contribute to Generative AI and RAG architectures, helping evaluate and integrate tools like AWS Bedrock safely, cost-effectively, and pragmatically
•Partner closely with the Tech Lead and Engineering Manager to balance delivering new product capabilities with maintaining long-term architectural health
•Collaborate with business stakeholders and Designers to deconstruct technical requirements, define system boundaries, write clear user stories, and provide accurate estimates
•Stay hands-on by writing clean, resilient backend services using Node.js and TypeScript on AWS
•Provide supportive technical mentorship, participate in architectural discussions, and conduct thorough code reviews

Senior Software EngineerAWSNode.jsTypeScriptDistributed SystemsGenerative AIConversational SearchDevSecOpsHybridAustralia

Key Responsibilities

•Take ownership of core services within the Discovery team, ensuring conversational search and content intelligence pipelines are scalable, highly available, and structurally sound

•Design and implement resilient, decoupled distributed systems using event-driven architectures, maintaining clean API boundaries and robust fault tolerance

•Embed DevSecOps practices within the team, integrating automated security scanning, vulnerability management, and strict IAM principles

•Maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines, driving automated testing, reliable deployment strategies, and infrastructure reproducibility

•Participate in FinOps practices, monitoring and optimizing AWS infrastructure spend

•Contribute to Generative AI and RAG architectures, helping evaluate and integrate tools like AWS Bedrock safely, cost-effectively, and pragmatically

•Partner closely with the Tech Lead and Engineering Manager to balance delivering new product capabilities with maintaining long-term architectural health

•Collaborate with business stakeholders and Designers to deconstruct technical requirements, define system boundaries, write clear user stories, and provide accurate estimates

•Stay hands-on by writing clean, resilient backend services using Node.js and TypeScript on AWS

•Provide supportive technical mentorship, participate in architectural discussions, and conduct thorough code reviews