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.
