Software Architect
Location: Brisbane | Salary: $160k-$165k Super | Technology: Node.js, JavaScript, Kubernetes, DynamoDB, AWS | Working mode: Hybrid Working
About the Company
This organisation is a large-scale, technology-driven business operating within a high-transaction, customer-facing environment. Its platforms power complex integrations, real-time search and booking capabilities, financial processing and large volumes of backend data transactions.
With a strong engineering culture and a modern cloud-first environment, the company is investing heavily in scalable architecture, platform capability and engineering best practices across multiple product teams. Technology is central to the customer experience and architecture plays a key role in shaping future capability.
About the Role
We are looking for a Software Architect to work across multiple engineering teams in a portfolio-level role focused on architecture, technical leadership and engineering guidance. This is not a traditional "ivory tower" architecture position; the business needs someone with a strong hands‐on software engineering background who still enjoys staying close to modern technology, engineering practices and delivery teams.
You will partner closely with engineers, tech leads and product teams to help shape solutions, guide architectural decisions, improve ways of working and support the delivery of scalable backend systems. While the role is not hands‐on coding day-to-day, you must be technically strong enough to challenge ideas, contribute to solution design and provide meaningful technical direction. The environment works very closely within development and focuses on large-scale distributed systems, integrations and transactional platforms. This role would suit someone coming from a tech lead/principal engineer position who has been involved in multiple projects and has guided architectural decisions.
Key responsibilities
* Partner closely with engineers, tech leads and product teams to shape solutions and guide architectural decisions.
* Improve ways of working and support the delivery of scalable backend systems.
* Challenge ideas, contribute to solution design and provide meaningful technical direction.
* Maintain technical depth in modern cloud‐native environments and distributed systems.
Skills & Experience
* Solid background as a Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead or Principal Engineer.
* Experience designing and delivering scalable end‐to‐end architectures.
* Strong AWS experience across modern cloud‐native environments.
* Experience working across multiple teams or large‐scale platforms.
* Strong understanding of backend architecture and distributed systems.
* Hands‐on experience with Node.js and JavaScript.
* Experience with Kubernetes/containerised environments.
* Exposure to technologies such as Elasticsearch, Redis, Lambda, S3, Postgres and DynamoDB.
* Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
* Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction.
* Experience within transactional, ecommerce, finance or high‐volume data environments highly regarded.
If you are looking for a role where you can shape architecture while remaining closely connected to engineering teams and delivery, APPLY TODAY.
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