Senior Software Engineer - Backend - Tyro Payments

Why Tyro?

At Tyro, we’re into business big time. Through our integrated payments, banking and lending solutions, we’re here to ensure nothing stands in the way of Australian business success. With over 21 years' experience under our belt, we know what it takes to build something great, which is why we combine the best people, technology, and partners to deliver simplified payments and seamless business banking to our customers. We’re proud to power more than 76,000 merchants across Australia and to work with almost 800 partners to create seamless experiences for hospitality, retail, services and health providers.

It starts with You.

Just like our customers, we’re obsessed with the success of our people. So, when you come onboard, we’ll give you all the support you need to do your best work. Our close to 600 Tyros are a highly collaborative team, so you’ll get to work with smart, motivated and friendly people across Tyro. We are fast paced and innovative and strive to live our values everyday – commit to greatness, stay hungry, wow the customer, be good and win together! We are big enough for you to have opportunities to have a career at Tyro and small enough that you can have a real impact. As we continue our mission to shake things up and make payments the easiest part of doing business, you’ll have the opportunity to learn new skills with hands-on experience, further your career, and help unleash the potential of our customers, one payment at a time.

Step inside life at Tyro here.

About the role

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Tyro, you will be a senior member of the Technology team, initially focused on supporting and enhancing the Banking platform. You will contribute to reliable, secure and maintainable backend services in a high-availability financial services environment, with a particular focus on Kotlin and/or Java, Spring Boot, AWS and SQL-based systems. Over time, the role will also provide opportunities to contribute to Tyro's Accounting platform and integration initiatives across Banking and Accounting, including APIs and new features such as Payroll. You will work collaboratively with engineers, product managers, operations, risk and other stakeholders to deliver practical business outcomes while supporting modern engineering practices and AI to enhance productivity.

What you'll do

Support, maintain and enhance backend services for Tyro’s Banking platform, including legacy platform maintenance, security vulnerability remediation, reporting and service improvements.

Build and operate reliable services in AWS, with practical experience across containers and services such as ECS, EKS and related cloud infrastructure.

Work with MySQL and SQL-based data stores to support reporting, platform enhancements, troubleshooting and production support activities.