Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - Human Resources Tech / Talent Acquisition (SaaS)

• Australian Market Leader with Tier One Enterprise Clients
• AI-Enabled Recruitment Technology
• Fully Remote Leadership Role — Huge Career Prospects

Our client is hiring a hands-on Head of Engineering to own technical direction and day-to-day delivery for their recruitment technology SaaS platform. This is a senior role — you'll code at a senior/lead level while also owning key stakeholder relationships across product and leadership teams.

Tech Stack

Backend/App: Laravel, MySQL

Frontend: Vue 3

Infrastructure: AWS (S3, OpenSearch, Redis)

Web front-end: WordPress, Varnish, NGINX

You'll Own

• Technical direction and architecture across the platform (job boards, career sites, ATS/HRIS integrations, AWS infrastructure, CMS)
• Translating product priorities (set with the Founder/CEO and Product/Design lead) into a scoped, sequenced delivery plan
• Hands-on development at a senior/lead level alongside the team, primarily in Laravel/Vue 3
• Identifying and driving AI opportunities — both in the product and in how the team builds software
• Working with the Head of Infrastructure, dotted-line, on AWS infrastructure and platform reliability
• Input into hiring and growing the dev team as it scales

You Bring

• Strong product sense — you think about why, not just how
• Solid hands-on experience with Laravel, MySQL, and Vue 3; comfortable with WordPress/Varnish/NGINX front-end architecture and AWS services (S3, OpenSearch, Redis)
• Practical, applied AI experience — both building AI-powered features and using AI tooling to speed up engineering workflows
• Senior/lead-level hands-on coding ability
• Comfortable stepping into an established team and taking ownership of process immediately

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