Staff Software Engineer (Fullstack)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Fullstack): Owning and evolving the web frontend platform architecture with React and Next.js, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance. Focus on designing systems that handle large-scale traffic, improve deployment safety, and provide technical leadership across teams.

Location: Hybrid, Melbourne, Australia. Enjoy a bustling office with the option for up to 2 days work from home per week.

Company

hirify.global leads the world in crafting top-tier entertainment experiences.

What you will do

• Own and evolve the web frontend platform architecture (React / Next.js) with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Write and ship high-quality production code, setting the standard for React, TypeScript, and frontend engineering best practices.
• Deliver end-to-end platform improvements that directly address system bottlenecks and failure modes.
• Design systems that handle large-scale traffic, burst events, and degrade gracefully under failure or attack.
• Improve deployment safety, rollout strategies, and failure recovery to prevent platform-wide incidents.
• Provide technical leadership across teams, mentoring engineers and influencing frontend architecture decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with strong frontend focus.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript fundamentals, NextJS and TypeScript.
• Experience with server-side rendering (SSR), modern frontend architecture, and testing frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, and guiding teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Nice to have

• Proven ability to drive systematic change in frontend engineering across multiple teams.
• Experience operating frontend systems under high traffic or adversarial conditions.
• Familiarity with performance optimisation techniques for frontend systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts.

Culture & Benefits

• Work alongside top engineering talent in Australia, using a vast cloud native tech stack.
• Exposure to building global, large-scale volume products which operate at thousands per second frequency.
• Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform.
• Be rewarded with lucrative annual bonuses.
• Fuel your day with daily breakfast and open pantries brimming with unlimited snacks and refreshments.
• Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles.