At Objective, we build software that helps governments deliver better outcomes for millions of people across Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who wants to do far more than deliver user stories.
This is an opportunity to become the technical leader within a high-performing engineering team—someone who influences architecture, improves engineering practices, mentors developers and drives the adoption of AI-assisted engineering across the software delivery lifecycle.
The Senior Software Engineer reports to the Development Manager, and it is an individual contributor role.
What you'll be doing:
- Design and build modern full-stack applications.
- Own technical decisions and contribute to solution architecture.
- Lead code reviews and champion engineering best practice.
- Improve CI/CD, testing, observability and operational excellence.
- Drive reliability, scalability and performance across our platforms.
- Lead incident response and drive operational improvements to prevent repeat issues.
- Champion AI-assisted engineering to improve productivity and quality.
- Shift quality left by shaping acceptance criteria, edge-case coverage, and verification practices to identify issues early.
- Confirm features are genuinely live, working as intended, delivering measurable outcomes for customers, and meeting business metrics.
- Partner closely with Product and Design to solve complex customer problems.
- Mentor engineers and help grow technical capability across the team.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing and building cloud-native software while helping your team deliver reliable, scalable products.
You'll:
We're looking for someone who has:
- Strong experience building modern cloud-based applications.
- Expertise across the full software development lifecycle.
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of Azure or AWS.
- Experience with containers, CI/CD and modern DevOps practices.
- A passion for engineering quality, system design and continuous improvement.
- The ability to mentor others while remaining hands-on.
Experience using AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor or other AI-assisted engineering platforms will be highly regarded.
Why join Objective?
- Hybrid and flexible working.
- Modern cloud-native technology stack.
- Investment in AI and emerging engineering practices.
- Genuine technical ownership and influence.
- Career growth within a high-performing engineering organisation.
- A collaborative, supportive engineering culture.
At Objective, our engineers don't just build software, they influence how it's built.
You'll join a collaborative product engineering team where you'll have the opportunity to shape architecture, improve engineering practices and work with modern cloud technologies to build software that makes a real difference to governments and communities.
We offer:
Objective Corporation North Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office
Level 30, 177 Pacific Highway, North Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2060
Objective Corporation Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office
Sydney, Australia
