Senior Software Engineer

**Senior Software Engineer – Sydney Based** A global financial technology business is building a new engineering team in Sydney. We’re looking for experienced Backend / Senior Software Engineers to join a high\-performing engineering environment working on complex, high\-scale financial technology. **The role** **You will:** * Design and develop highly available, scalable backend systems. * Own services from system design through to deployment and production. * Work across complex, distributed systems and business\-critical workflows. * Design resilient architectures and asynchronous services. * Build APIs and integrate with internal and external systems. * Work closely with Product, Operations and international engineering teams. The business is technology agnostic, so strong backend engineers from a range of technology environments will be considered. **What we're looking for** * Strong commercial backend software engineering experience. * Experience designing and maintaining complex systems at scale. * Strong understanding of distributed systems and service\-oriented architecture. * Experience working with cloud infrastructure and modern engineering practices. * Experience with APIs, asynchronous processing and event\-driven systems. * Strong engineering fundamentals and a focus on reliability, scalability and maintainability. * Experience working in a collaborative product/engineering environment. **Relevant technologies may include** Python \| Django \| FastAPI \| PostgreSQL \| AWS