Shockbyte

Senior Software Developer

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3 months ago
Melbourne, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Develop and ship full-stack product pages, components, and platform features.
  • Contribute to architecture, code reviews, system design, and end-to-end project delivery.
  • Support the Melbourne office as its senior technical contributor by answering questions and unblocking teammates.
  • Experiment with AI development tools and share effective practices with the engineering team.
  • Maintain technical documentation and cover Australian business hours for reliability.
  • Collaborate regularly with the Europe-based development team outside standard Australian business hours.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of senior software development experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
  • Strong full-stack development skills and experience building secure, scalable, and performant systems.
  • Deep system design knowledge, including trade-offs for high concurrency and large data loads.
  • Comfort working with AI tools such as Claude Code.
  • Product mindset, stakeholder communication skills, and the ability to work independently.
  • Based in Melbourne and able to work from the office three days per week.
  • Interest in games and game servers, with familiarity with server-side systems.
  • Preferred qualifications include cloud infrastructure or game server orchestration experience, technical team leadership, Linux, networking, bare-metal systems, gaming industry familiarity, and experience with Shockbyte’s technology stack.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work with home and office time, including three office days per week for this role.
  • Flexible working hours and schedule flexibility for European team collaboration.
  • Career growth opportunities and a professional development budget for courses, certifications, and conferences.
  • Home office or coworking stipend.
  • Physical and virtual team events, company merchandise, travel opportunities, free game server hosting, and tickets to esports tournaments and gaming expos.

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About Shockbyte

11-50 employees
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