Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Melbourne, Australia

Role overview

Build and improve the shared services and SDK layer behind a product that turns written material from websites, cloud documents, and books into an audio experience. The position sits between product development and infrastructure, requiring thoughtful API design, reliable service engineering, and attention to loading and parsing quality. The Melbourne, Australia listing describes a remote, fast-paced team with an established asynchronous culture.

Responsibilities

- Collaborate with product teams to scope initiatives, identify a focused first version, and obtain customer feedback more quickly. - Assess integration constraints and user-experience effects while delivering functionality through a cross-platform SDK. - Design stronger abstractions and algorithms to improve speed, parsing intelligence, and maintainability. - Ship Kotlin cloud functions, lightweight backends, and background processing jobs.

Requirements

- Understand systems from end to end and consistently look for designs that are both capable and simple. - Move rapidly from idea generation to prioritization, balancing immediate delivery against longer-term engineering needs. - Exercise sound focus and independence in a busy remote team while remaining available for high-value collaboration. - Build trust and alignment with designers, marketers, and product managers through clear discussion, influence, and constructive negotiation.

Nice to have

- Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform is preferred; Java experience can provide a useful foundation for the transition. - Prior exposure to Google Cloud Platform.

Benefits and work setup

- Work in a high-growth setting where technical contributors can help influence the company and its product direction. - Join an entrepreneurial team that values risk-taking, judgment, and sustained momentum. - Use a hands-off management model that gives engineers room to concentrate and make decisions. - Receive competitive compensation and operate in a friendly, relaxed, asynchronous environment. - Help create technology used by millions of people, with a particular focus on access for users with dyslexia, ADHD, low vision, concussions, autism, and related needs.