Senior Software Engineer

Senior Java Engineer - High-Scale Banking Platform - $160-220k + super + bonus

Our client is building banking systems that process millions of transactions daily with sub-100ms P99 latencies and five-nines availability. Real technical challenges, contemporary infrastructure, and teams that value work-life balance.

The Stack

• Core: Java 17+, Spring Boot 3.x, reactive streams
• Cloud: GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Spanner)
• Data: PostgreSQL, distributed caching, event-driven architectures
• Observability: Distributed tracing, metrics pipelines, chaos engineering
• CI/CD: GitOps, containerized deployments, progressive rollouts

What You'll Actually Do

• Design high-throughput, fault-tolerant microservices for personal and business banking
• Solve distributed systems problems: eventual consistency, idempotency, circuit breakers, rate limiting
• Optimise JVM performance, database queries, and network I/O at scale
• Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers on production-grade patterns
• Participate in a reasonable on-call rotation with a team that values sustainable practices

What They're Looking For

• Strong Java expertise with production experience in high-scale environments
• Solid fundamentals: concurrency, memory management, profiling, performance tuning
• Experience building resilient distributed systems in the cloud
• Pragmatic about technology choices, you know when to use the boring solution
• Comfortable in environments where correctness and reliability matter

Why This Role

• Strong engineering culture with autonomy to make technical decisions and dedicated time for learning
• Tackle genuinely complex engineering problems at significant scale
• Work with engineers who care about craft and sustainability
• Flexible working: 3 days in office, 2 days remote
• Comprehensive benefits: wellbeing leave, up to 20 weeks paid parental leave, professional development budget, volunteer days, EAP access
• Career growth: clear pathways to principal engineer or technical leadership roles

Location: Sydney | Type: Permanent | Hybrid: 3 days/week in office

Our client is committed to building diverse teams and welcomes applications from all backgrounds, with reasonable adjustments available throughout the recruitment process.

If you want to solve hard distributed systems problems without sacrificing your life outside work, let's talk