Senior Software Engineer, Application Migration

We're looking for a Senior Engineer with a strong background in computer science fundamentals, systems design, experience in the Java ecosystem, streaming systems, and data-intensive applications to join our engineering team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and optimizing the underlying data structures, algorithms, and database interactions that power our generative AI platform, code generation and migration tools. This involves crafting sophisticated orchestration layers, robust integration points, and high-performance data systems that seamlessly connect and leverage advanced AI capabilities for code generation and  building a sophisticated data migration suite using a modern technology stack, which includes Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Debezium, and React.You will work on critical components that ensure the scalability, efficiency, and reliability of our services, collaborating closely with AI researchers, product management and other engineers to design and implement cutting-edge products that solve complex customer challenges..

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Sydney for our hybrid working model.

The ideal candidate for this role will have

• 6+ years of  engineering experience in backend systems, distributed systems, or core platform development.
• Proficiency in one or several of Java, Rust, C/C++, and/or Python, with a strong understanding of systems-level programming, memory management, and performance tuning.
• Extensive experience with streaming data platforms such as Apache Kafka and Change Data Capture (CDC) tools like Debezium
• Extensive experience with relational data modeling and hands-on experience with at least one SQL database (Postgres, MySQL, etc)
• Exposure to client-side technologies such as JavaScript and React is a plus
• Good understanding of algorithms, data structures and their time and space complexity
• Curiosity, a positive attitude, and a drive to continue learning
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with cloud-native distributed systems (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Experience with NoSQL databases and understanding of their trade-offs is great, but not required. We'll teach you NoSQL.
• Contributions to relevant open-source projects.

Position Expectations

• Contribute high-quality, well-tested backend code to the data migration engine and core components of our generative AI orchestration platform
• Collaborate effectively with Product Management, AI researchers and machine learning engineers and designers to build and deliver on the product roadmap
• Work to develop robust and efficient backend services that orchestrate AI functionalities
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks and architectural challenges in our systems, particularly wi