Senior Software Engineer (Golang, GCP, progress into leadership role)
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Prophet builds digital clones of organisations – AI-powered mathematical models that bring together thousands of marketing, commercial and macroeconomic data points.
These models allow leaders and marketers to test strategies, run "what if" scenarios, and make confident decisions before committing resources in the real world.
About the Role
You'll play a key role joining a small but mighty engineering team collaborating closely with our CTO (ex-Google and Microsoft) to build Prophet's systems for scale, speed, and resilience.
Your mission
Design and implement backend architecture and infrastructure that's fast, reliable, and ready for global scale.
You'll have a voice in every technical decision — from systems design and deployment to data pipelines and performance optimisation.
This is a hands-on role where you'll ship code, shape architecture, and lay the foundations for a platform built to last.
About you
A senior engineer ready to progress into a leadership role.
An independent thinker — you love healthy debate and look for intellectual peers in your workplace.
Proactive and comfortable owning outcomes.
Thrives when you can drive high-level tasks, influence infrastructure and contribute design ideas.
Brings a technical-first mindset (not management focused) and wants to join a company where growth opportunities are imminent as the company scales.
Excited about the opportunity to lead and develop your own team.
Technical Skills Required
Google Cloud Platform — hands-on experience deploying and operating at scale
PostgreSQL — strong database design and optimisation skills
CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code — familiarity with Terraform or similar
Will consider
Experience with C, Rust, or other systems-level languages.
What You Bring
Proven experience building and operating high-performing, scalable web applications — ideally in high-growth SaaS environments.
Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability, security, and long-term maintainability.
A strong track record of designing systems for multi-region or high-availability environments.
A commitment to clean, maintainable, and well-documented code — and a belief in testing as a key part of the craft.
Excellent communication skills — you can explain complex ideas clearly, listen actively, and collaborate with empathy.
Why Join Prophet
Market Impact: Be part of an ambitious team defining a new category of marketing decision tech.
Innovation Leadership: Represent breakthrough technology powered by Nobel Prize-winning mathematics.
Strategic Role: Shape the roadmap of a product that top agencies and brands rely on.
Office-first culture built on trust, creativity, and speed.
Prophet is an invention for discovery.
Prophet is a world-first predictive intelligence platform revolutionising how businesses understand and optimise their entire marketing and commercial ecosystem.
Built as the antithesis to traditional Market and Media Mix Modelling (MMM), Prophet delivers unprecedented speed, clarity, and precision — enabling brands to measure, forecast, and simulate the impact of every investment across every channel, online and offline.
Powered by world-leading mathematics and AI, Prophet builds a digital clone of an organisation's ecosystem, ingesting organisational, media, macroeconomic, and behavioural data to identify true performance drivers and guide strategy in real time.
We work with some of Australia's most progressive enterprise brands across finance, banking, telecommunications, automotive, retail and beyond — helping them reduce inefficiencies, improve media ROI, and make confident decisions in rapidly evolving environments.
Prophet emerged from four years of intensive stealth development, grounded in statistical rigour and built by a founding team with experience from SpaceX, Deloitte, Meta, WPP and NAB.
Backed by leading investors and scaling fast, we're redefining what's possible in marketing and commercial intelligence.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level.
Employment type
Full-time.
Industries
Software Development.
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