EML is a leading Workers Compensation and Personal Injury Claims Management business. Our goal is to help people get their lives back through ongoing support during their return-to-work journey. We continue to experience ongoing growth and now have over 4,000 dedicated employees. We foster a learning culture that allows for us to continually invest in our employees ensuring a long-term career here at EML.
THE OPPORTUNITY
As part of our diverse team based in Sydney, you will help make a positive impact on someone’s life every day. You will feel great satisfaction knowing your talent and hard work has a purpose.
As a Senior Fullstack Python Developer, you’ll design, build and maintain robust backend systems in Python while contributing to modern frontend development.
You’ll lead complex projects end-to-end, collaborate across product and design teams, and take ownership of architecture decisions that balance scalability, performance and speed.
With a focus on quality, automation and continuous improvement, you’ll enhance our infrastructure, CI/CD and system reliability while mentoring others and shaping the technical direction of the platform.
This will be a full time, permanent position based in our Sydney office, with work-from-home flexibility (up to 3 days per week).
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design, build and enhance key backend services in Python, while supporting modern frontend development initiatives.
- Drive delivery of end-to-end full-stack solutions, overseeing everything from initial concept to deployment and optimisation.
- Partner with product, design and operational teams to shape the roadmap and ensure technical alignment with business goals.
- Champion improvements to our infrastructure, pipelines, monitoring and overall system performance.
- Take responsibility for platform architecture, making pragmatic decisions that balance scalability, speed and long-term stability.
- Embed strong practices around testing, security and maintainability across all layers of the stack.
- Act as a technical leader and mentor, setting standards, guiding peers and influencing the broader engineering direction.
ABOUT YOU
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on Python backend development.
- Solid practical experience in fullstack development (backend + frontend) in production environments.
- architecture skills.
- Sound knowledge of frontend technologies (e.g., React, Angular, Vue) and how frontend + backend interact; able to contribute across both.
- Hands-on experience with databases (relational and/or NoSQL), message brokers, APIs, microservices architecture, and DevOps/CI-CD pipelines.
- Excellent communication skills — able to engage cross-functional stakeholders, articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and mentor team members.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and elevate a development team: code reviews, mentoring, design discussions, enforcing quality.
- Experience in hybrid or node-based architectures, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), observability/monitoring stacks would be highly advantageous.
WHAT WE OFFER
We stand together as equals. EML is an equal opportunity employer so by coming to work for us, you will be part of a culture that celebrates diversity and inclusion. We are committed to maintaining a workplace where everyone feels valued and where we show respect, integrity and honesty.
EML provides career opportunities and great employee benefits, including:
A vibrant, collaborative innovative team culture
Flexibility with opportunity to WFH when you are fully trained in your role.
A corporate wellbeing program with discounted health insurance and gym membership
Access to discounts at over 350 retailers through our Rewards Hub program
Entitlement to an annual tenure and performance-based recognition reward
Comprehensive learning and development support
Companywide events to celebrate success.
Quarterly Reward and Recognition Awards
Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave, plus super
We value our people and are committed to supporting our employees by investing in their professional development and providing generous employee benefits. If this position is of interest to you, please apply now.
