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Hays

Principal Software Engineer (Backend)

Hays
Australia · Full-time · Mid-Senior

Multiple Mid, Senior & Lead Level roles working for Tech Unicorn 🦄 in Sydney or Melbourne


HAYS have partnered with an Australian scaleup (Unicorn) who are one of the biggest success stories from the Australian startup ecosystem. The company is growing significantly and is looking for multiple Lead & Mid-Level Engineers to join them on a permanent basis. The roles can be based in either Sydney or Melbourne.


The company is well known for having one of the best engineering teams in Australia and offer a flexible working environment with great career progression opportunities.


The role


You'll be joining a highly productive and fast paced team, delivering best in class SaaS solutions to their global client base. You'll be working with some of the best engineers in Sydney and Melbourne so this is a great opportunity to learn from and work with the very best and get a great tech company on your CV.


Experience required


As a Principal Back-End Engineer you will play a significant role in creating value for the companies millions of users by delivering best in class technical solutions.


  • The company looks for solutions focussed, language agnostic engineers
  • 10+ years experience in Software Engineering
  • You must be capable of working across multiple languages, the company mainly uses; Go, PHP, JS, Terraform
  • Aurora MySQL, Redis, and RDS MySQL would be great
  • Experience with Low Code and No Code systems would be ideal
  • CI/CD, Docker, ECS/ECR, and Kubernetes (EKS)
  • Passion for, or experience in contemporary are of software technology; ML, AI, Search Engines, Event-Based Architectures



If the above description sounds like you, but you don't feel as though you are at Principal level then please still apply as the company has multiple Senior and Mid-Level positions available.


If you want to work for one of the best tech companies in Australia then please reach out / apply through the link or get in touch with Daniel Postlethwaite [email protected]

Key Skills

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mysql kubernetes docker redis saas php ai
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Posted
Mar 16, 2025
Type
Full-time
Level
Mid-Senior
Location
Sydney
Company
Hays

Industries

Software Development

Categories

Information Technology

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