Top Software Engineer Jobs in Melbourne

Develop and support scalable, high-availability software within the ACIL tribe. Responsibilities include planning, coding, code review, testing, source control, build automation, performance tuning, and collaboration across teams. The role focuses on backend and frontend development, distributed and event-driven systems, AWS cloud solutions, DevOps practices, observability, clean code, and continuous improvement. Engineers are expected to contribute to team culture, share knowledge, and help deliver reliable products for dealership customers.

Design and maintain automated test frameworks, validation tooling, and infrastructure for autonomy software. Develop Python automation, regression, integration, functional, and performance tests across simulation, SIL, HIL, and VIL environments. Analyze results, troubleshoot integration issues, create quality metrics and readiness assessments, and integrate testing into CI/CD workflows. Collaborate with autonomy, systems engineering, flight test, and integration teams to support software quality and operational readiness.

Provides technical leadership and hands-on development for modern C++ software running on Linux-based edge platforms. Designs architectures, integrates cameras and sensors, develops imaging and mission applications, optimizes performance, and resolves issues across software, networking, hardware, and deployment boundaries. Mentors senior engineers, establishes reusable platforms and standards, and leads complex initiatives from requirements through deployment and sustained operation.

Designs and integrates systems across autonomy, perception, and mission-level technology stacks. Captures requirements, develops system architectures, creates and maintains MBSE models using UML, SysML, and UPDM, and supports systems engineering processes. Collaborates with design, development, integration, test, product, program, and business development teams while reporting technical status, risks, and progress to leadership.

Develop realistic backend coding challenges, including feature implementations and bug fixes, for AI training projects. Design deterministic verifiers, automated tests, and validation criteria that distinguish correct from incorrect solutions. Evaluate code for correctness, reliability, maintainability, security, and performance while identifying edge cases and bottlenecks. Work independently with backend technologies and refine tasks based on project requirements and quality standards.

Design, build, operate, and maintain critical distributed cloud systems for Grafana Loki and related observability databases. Own system reliability, performance, and availability; deliver projects from ideation through customer operations; contribute to open-source projects; participate in on-call rotations; mentor teammates; and collaborate on technical designs and roadmap decisions.

Build innovative software products in the Special Projects Division addressing public health, agriculture, education, and aid-related challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. Responsibilities include designing software architectures, developing on UNIX-based platforms, participating in code reviews, using disciplined version control, collaborating with teams, and potentially applying Django, React, Android, or PyTorch. The role may involve travel to Africa to understand local contexts.

Lead hands-on software engineering and technical direction across a core platform built with C#, .NET, PostgreSQL, AWS, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, BFFs, and frontend components. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, design reviews, mentoring, CI/CD improvement, observability, security, reliability, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration. The role also advances AI-assisted development, AI agent governance, and agent-enabled engineering workflows without direct people management.

Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain secure .NET software, backend services, APIs, integrations, and event-driven microservices. Work with PostgreSQL, AWS Lambda, ECS, EC2, Blazor, and MudBlazor while contributing to automated testing, code reviews, technical planning, documentation, troubleshooting, and production support. Collaborate on reliable, maintainable solutions and use approved AI-assisted development tools responsibly.

Design, implement, and operate scalable backend services for the Spend and Accounting domains powering cards and expense workflows. Own end-to-end feature delivery, contribute to architecture, write testable reliable code, uphold observability and API best practices, collaborate with product and infrastructure, and provide technical mentorship to raise engineering standards.

Contributes to the full software development lifecycle, including designing, coding, testing, deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting secure and scalable systems. Develops automated tests, participates in code reviews and agile ceremonies, resolves defects, supports production reliability, documents technical work, and collaborates with product, design, and business stakeholders. The role also emphasizes continuous learning, effective communication, and adherence to engineering, security, compliance, and change-management standards.

Build and maintain platform products, internal tools, and shared services across the stack. Develop frontends, backend services, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, observability, testing, and integrations. Collaborate on secure, scalable designs, support incidents, contribute documentation, and improve developer experience and platform consistency.

Build and maintain full-stack web products for real estate advertising and value platforms. Collaborate with engineering leaders and distributed teams on technical design, delivery planning, cloud-based systems, and continuous improvement. Apply modern software development practices, including functional and object-oriented programming, test-driven development, CI/CD, agile delivery, and pair programming. Contribute to microservices, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and data pipelines.

Design, build, test, release, and support Android features using Kotlin. Collaborate with Product, Design, and subject-matter experts to deliver user-focused functionality. Own features end-to-end, including performance, accessibility, analytics, experimentation, observability, and reliability. Contribute to shared mobile platform standards, code reviews, documentation, release support, and knowledge sharing while working in an agile, cross-functional squad.

Provides technical leadership for secure, resilient cloud-native content platforms. Responsibilities include designing and operating AWS and Kubernetes solutions, developing software and automation, integrating AI capabilities, improving CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices, embedding testing and observability, strengthening reliability and disaster recovery, and mentoring engineers. The role supports the migration and ongoing enhancement of OpenText document retention and archiving services.

The Senior Software Developer will drive product development, lead AI innovations, improve local documentation, and support the Melbourne office's technical growth while collaborating with the European team.

Design, scale, and optimise AWS cloud infrastructure supporting a global IoT platform. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, monitoring, incident response, multi-region architecture, and resolving performance and reliability challenges in production environments.

Designs, develops, deploys, tests, and reviews software applications, features, and defect fixes. Collaborates with team leaders and users to support a product roadmap, analyze requirements, document software, provide developer-level support, and learn existing codebases. The role also involves participating in planning meetings, conferences, and occasional team travel.

Leads hands-on engineering for AI-enabled operational risk platforms using .NET, Python, AWS, microservices, APIs, and agentic AI. Designs scalable architectures, writes production code, mentors engineers, establishes CI/CD and GitOps practices, and improves testing, observability, reliability, security, and compliance. Partners with product, data science, and platform teams to evolve MVP solutions into enterprise-grade systems while integrating event streams and producer-led data products.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable APIs, automation services, and cloud-native software addressing security challenges. Build reliable solutions using modern engineering practices, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and secure development. Collaborate with engineers, product owners, architects, and security specialists across the software lifecycle, contribute to architecture and code reviews, resolve technical issues, and improve engineering efficiency, reliability, and maintainability.

Develop and support scalable Java and Spring Boot backend microservices powering omnichannel inventory availability, order promising, allocation, fulfilment, and post-purchase experiences. Build event-driven processing with Kafka, integrate OMS, WMS, ERP, commerce, and fulfilment platforms, and ensure services are secure, observable, reliable, and performant. Own features from design through production, write tested code, participate in reviews, troubleshoot production issues, and improve operational efficiency.

Designs, automates, and executes functional, integration, API, contract, regression, concurrency, and performance tests for inventory, order promising, sourcing, and fulfillment platforms. Investigates defects, validates fixes, maintains regression coverage, integrates quality tests into CI/CD pipelines, and supports release readiness. The role collaborates with product and engineering teams to validate distributed commerce systems, integrations, business rules, data consistency, scalability, resilience, and consumer-impacting workflows.

Design and develop scalable, secure frontend web applications for connected embedded systems. Lead frontend architecture, collaborate with backend/embedded teams, implement device provisioning, telemetry visualization, and remote management UIs. Optimize performance, accessibility, and maintainability; mentor engineers, participate in reviews, and drive frontend best practices.

Develop and maintain production C++ software for Linux-based edge/embedded platforms (NVIDIA Jetson, ARM). Integrate sensors and peripherals, build calibration/diagnostic tools, optimise performance (latency, throughput, power), debug across software/hardware/OS/networking, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver fieldable autonomy and mission systems.

Evaluate AI coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor for engineering judgment, response quality, reasoning, explanations, and user guidance. Provide clear written feedback and recorded video assessments, distinguish response-quality levels, and help define standards for excellent AI-assisted development interactions. This is a flexible remote contract role focused on evaluation rather than production coding.