Who We Are:
At Prezzee, we’re more than just a digital gifting platform – we’re building human connections through unforgettable gifting moments. With over 1,000 brand partners globally, we’re transforming how people give and receive gifts. From our beginnings as a small Australian startup to becoming a global leader, we thrive on innovation, collaboration, and a deep commitment to making a real impact.
The Role:
As a Senior Software Engineer at Prezzee, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of digital gifting by delivering secure, scalable, and high-quality solutions across a range of modern tech stacks.
You’ll take ownership of complex projects—from designing clean, maintainable code to driving production releases through robust CI/CD pipelines. With a focus on engineering excellence, you’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, craft reliable tests, and contribute to system architecture decisions that support our global growth.
You’ll also mentor junior engineers, promote best practices, and help foster a culture of continuous improvement. If you're passionate about building great products and want to be part of a team that’s redefining the gift card and payments experience worldwide, we’d love to hear from you.
Some of the technologies and patterns we’re working on across our teams:
- Python, Django, FastAPI
- GraphQL Backend for Frontend using Apollo server.
- MicroServices backend capable of over 100 orders per second.
- Realtime page performance monitoring (LCP, Total Load Time, etc..) in Datadog
- Prezzee is an AWS Enterprise customer
- We love AI and are rolling out our custom internal AI agent soon.
What You'll Be Doing:
Key Responsibilities:
Coding, Quality and Architecture
- Deliver high quality, maintainable code
- Maintain a codebase and keep frameworks up to date, identify tech debt and improvements proactively
- Ensure testing meets any compliance requirements e.g. PI and GDPR
- Review and promote new testing tools and techniques
- Manage pull request approvals
- Apply a risk based approach to assessing all security aspects of a system/application
- Follow DevOps best practices and keep up with modern tooling
Able to set architecture direction to integrate new architectural componentsOn-call support
Continuous improvement & best practice
- Follows industry best practices with particular attention to maintainability, reusability, extensibility and clean code
- Ensure team adoption of coding, quality, accessibility and secure code standards
- Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement
- Maintain a test and learn mindset with curiosity, collaboration and care
Collaboration & mentorship
- Ability to collaborate across different teams within Prezzee, and across all levels of seniority
- Provide coaching and mentoring to other team members
- Lead all interactions with trust empathy and clear communication
- Lead the team in the absence of the Technical Lead
- Actively participate in team collaboration sessions e.g. tech forums, brown bags, strategy meetings
- Able to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
What We’re Looking For:
Core Skills:
- Strong back end developer who is experienced with Python
- Ability to design, estimate and build high quality and maintainable code
- Ability to maintain a codebase and keep frameworks up to date, identify tech debt and improvements proactively
- Exceptional problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Extensive experience crafting and building software using the latest delivery techniques
- An understanding of architectural concepts and cloud-based solution design
- Demonstrable ability to motivate self and others
- Experience working with technical and non-technical partners, with the capability to influence
Why Join Us?
Join us at Prezzee, where we don’t just work – we innovate, collaborate, and shape the future of digital gifting. As part of our dynamic team, you’ll contribute to a global company’s growth while enjoying a flexible, supportive, and inclusive work environment. We offer:
- Incentive schemes based on company-wide targets and individual performance.
- Employee referral program and staff discounts.
- Flexible hours, Culture Swap Days, and 30-day work-from-anywhere benefit.
- Opportunities for professional growth through self-led learning and leadership development programs.
- Fortnight FIRE Fridays where teams come collaborate to spark with Formative Ideas, Research and Experiment in tech improvements
- Supportive wellbeing platform (Telus) for your mental, social, financial, and physical wellbeing.
Prezzee has been recognized as Foundry's Computerworld 2024 & 2025 Best Places to Work in IT . We value diversity, collaboration, and innovation in everything we do. Join a global team united by the core values: Give openness, Give greatness, Give magic, and Give a damn.
Prezzee is an Equal Opportunity employer. We believe that diversity is the key to building the best products for our customers, team culture and growing our global business. Our diversity mission is for our people to be their most authentic selves, to inspire, innovate and celebrate within a culture of belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.
We are looking for people to help create human connections, make magic and shape the future of gifting so even if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you! Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the application and recruitment process, We also encourage you to let us know of your pronouns at any point of the process.
