Senior Software Engineer

About the role

We are building the platform that trains, assesses and verifies operators: personalised pathways, a 1:1 AI tutor, real industry missions and a skills record employers can trust. As a senior engineer you’ll design and ship core parts of it, working directly with the founders and the people who use it.

What you’ll do

• Design, build and run core product: pathways, missions, assessment and the capability portfolio employers review.
• Build AI features that hold up in practice, including tutoring, feedback and skills mapping, with evaluation and guardrails you can stand behind.
• Own systems end to end, from data model and APIs to the interface, deployment and monitoring.
• Make sensible architecture decisions for a product that handles sensitive data and will serve security-conscious customers.
• Talk to operators, mentors and employers, and turn what you learn into shipped improvements every week.
• Help set the engineering bar and hire the engineers who come next.

What you’ll bring

• Five or more years building and shipping production software, ideally full-stack.
• Strong fundamentals in one modern stack (for example TypeScript or Python) and in cloud infrastructure.
• Experience building with large language models in production, or a clear, demonstrable interest in doing so well.
• Care for security, privacy and reliability, not just features.
• The habit of shipping small, often, and owning what happens after release.

Nice to have

• Experience in edtech, assessment or marketplace products.
• Experience working to government or defence security standards.

Why NOUSIA

Hard problems, a small team and work that will matter for the next 100 years. You’ll have real ownership from day one and work in person with the founders in Melbourne. We’ll talk salary at the first call.

How we hire

Apply with your CV and a few lines on why NOUSIA. If it’s a fit, we’ll book a 30-minute intro call, then set you a short piece of real work from the role. You’ll present it to the team in Melbourne and meet the people you’ll work with.