At Objective, we build software that helps governments deliver better outcomes for millions of people across Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who wants to do far more than deliver user stories.
This is an opportunity to become the technical leader within a high-performing engineering team—someone who influences architecture, improves engineering practices, mentors developers and drives the adoption of AI-assisted engineering across the software delivery lifecycle.
The Senior Software Engineer reports to the Development Manager, and it is an individual contributor role.
What you'll be doing:
- Design and build modern full-stack applications.
- Own technical decisions and contribute to solution architecture.
- Lead code reviews and champion engineering best practice.
- Improve CI/CD, testing, observability and operational excellence.
- Drive reliability, scalability and performance across our platforms.
- Lead incident response and drive operational improvements to prevent repeat issues.
- Champion AI-assisted engineering to improve productivity and quality.
- Shift quality left by shaping acceptance criteria, edge-case coverage, and verification practices to identify issues early.
- Confirm features are genuinely live, working as intended, delivering measurable outcomes for customers, and meeting business metrics.
- Partner closely with Product and Design to solve complex customer problems.
- Mentor engineers and help grow technical capability across the team.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing and building cloud-native software while helping your team deliver reliable, scalable products.
You'll:
We're looking for someone who has:
- Strong experience building modern cloud-based applications.
- Expertise across the full software development lifecycle.
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of Azure or AWS.
- Experience with containers, CI/CD and modern DevOps practices.
- A passion for engineering quality, system design and continuous improvement.
- The ability to mentor others while remaining hands-on.
Experience using AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor or other AI-assisted engineering platforms will be highly regarded.
Why join Objective?
- Hybrid and flexible working.
- Modern cloud-native technology stack.
- Investment in AI and emerging engineering practices.
- Genuine technical ownership and influence.
- Career growth within a high-performing engineering organisation.
- A collaborative, supportive engineering culture.
At Objective, our engineers don't just build software, they influence how it's built.
You'll join a collaborative product engineering team where you'll have the opportunity to shape architecture, improve engineering practices and work with modern cloud technologies to build software that makes a real difference to governments and communities.
We offer:
Skills Required
- Strong experience building modern cloud-based applications.
- Expertise across the full software development lifecycle.
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of Azure or AWS.
- Experience with containers, CI/CD and modern DevOps practices.
- Passion for engineering quality, system design and continuous improvement.
- Ability to mentor others while remaining hands-on.
- Experience using AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor or other AI-assisted engineering platforms.
What We Do
We’re formed by a team of creators, passionate about code, agile methodology and focused on sharing knowledge to generate value for our customers through digital solutions. Discovering innovative paths in complex and strategic projects, we guarantee the quality of delivery in scale through continuous tests automation, which creates the necessary confidence for creating long-standing relationships among employees, customers and partners. For over 20 years, we have contributed to the success of the largest telecommunications companies in Brazil with digital solutions for billing and subscribers management. And through our experience and knowledge, we expanded our offerings with a portfolio of digital solutions, consultancies and software development teams for the most varied market segments, such as manufacturing, finance, education, retail, health and utilities. The United States unit was founded in 2017, in Chicago, allowing us to deliver the same quality, expertise and specific IT solutions to American companies. The company belongs to the Objective Group, which includes E-TRUST, specialized in information security and Identity Management, CodeIT, which develops systems for insurance and social security and ELEFLOW with BI solutions and Big Data Analytics. If you like challenges, learn constantly and value personal connections, join us! Other interesting information about us you should know: - One of the best companies to work in Paraná, Brazil, according to GPTW - We offer one of the best remuneration in Brazilian IT market, according to Glassdoor - Offices in Brazil (São Paulo, Maringá, Curitiba) and Chicago - We’re a benchmark of agile development, with a case published on ‘The Scrumban [R]Evolution: Getting the Most Out of Agile, Scrum, and Lean Kanban’ book, from Ajay Reddy
