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Senior Software Engineer

The Onset
Sydney, NSW
A$160,000-$170,000 p/a + super + shares
Information & Communication Technology → Engineering - Software
Full-time
Hybrid

Posted 22 days ago


If you're the kind of engineer who wants more than ticket-chasing and bug fixing, this team will feel like home. You'll join a $100m+ product company used by millions of designers and small businesses globally. Your work won’t be buried - it’ll ship fast, scale wide, and shape real experiences people rely on daily.
You’ll also get the balance right - most of the team works from home and comes into the Surry Hills office around once a week to connect, collaborate, or just hang out. How and where you work is up to you, as long as it works for the team.
Here, problems are fresh. They’re not solved with copy-paste architecture or “just another microservice.” You’ll be trusted to explore, experiment, and engineer your own solutions. That means autonomy, creativity, and real ownership from day one.

The role
You’ll join a core team at the heart of the platform. It leans backend (Node.js, Postgres, AWS), but you’ll touch front end too (Vue.js). Ideal for someone who enjoys digging into complex systems and shaping clean, maintainable solutions from the ground up.

Some of the big projects you'll shape

  • Scaling multilingual support across tools and platforms
  • Evolving their AI-powered design experiences
  • Enhancing mobile UI/UX and video animation tools
  • Tackling deep technical challenges that make their design products faster, smarter, and more intuitive
  • This isn’t a feature factory. You’ll ship things that matter, and you’ll own your work.

What you’ll bring

  • Experience leading or owning backend-heavy projects, ideally across a few different domains
  • A systems thinker who still loves getting stuck into code
  • Language-agnostic, but comfortable with Node.js, Vue.js, AWS
  • A natural problem solver who doesn’t wait for instructions
  • Has strong opinions loosely held, and values clean, maintainable code
  • BONUS - if you’ve worked on distributed systems or built services with AI

Why people join and stay

  • High trust, high autonomy
  • Small team, global impact
  • Equity you don’t need to squint at
  • Real influence on product and tech direction
  • They’re small enough to move fast, but big enough that what you build will have real reach!

Sound like you? Apply now or message Jon Holland or Indigo Munro on Linkedin if you’re keen to know more!
Apply here :)


About The Onset

Sydney, NSW, Australia

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