Software Engineer

LIFELENZ is a rapidly growing team of 80+ mathematicians, engineers, designers, computer scientists, strategists and client success experts based in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and UK building a machine learning-based, advanced analytics workforce and human capital management platform. We have built and maintained over 20+ platforms over a 19-year period. We have won many awards for client delivery and collectively contributed to over 100+ global patents for complex software platforms. In the past 2 years, the business has been funded over $20M USD as we deliver metrics that will unlock our Series B funding in early Q1 2026, providing us with significant capital to accelerate our growth & expansion across verticals and geographies while further driving our dominance in the US QSR Top Brands market.

Our mission is to create optimized outcomes for both employers and employees.

LIFELENZ is an automated workforce and human capital management platform solving challenges related to onboarding, sales & labour forecasting, scheduling & time clock/keeping, insights & reporting and labour law compliance. It uses machine learning to automatically self-tune and self-manage models to a particular store with hyper-local attributes. The technology approach and analytic methodologies used enable the distribution across large-scale centralized ownership and highly fragmented franchised ownership companies.

Purpose

You will be an integral part of a cross-functional product team comprising an engineering team lead, tester, UX designer, backend engineers, and fellow web developers. Your ideas and innovative suggestions matter and will be crucial in improving our web platform, code quality and development processes.

This role offers a unique growth path where you can deepen your understanding of the full technology stack, contribute to architectural decisions, and develop skills in other areas of the platform. Day to day you will be contributing to our platform which consists of several single page applications built with React and Aurelia with a GraphQL Ruby on Rails backend.

Key responsibilities included but are not limited to the following:

• Develop engaging visual interactions that help organisations make effective decisions from their data, and take action on the data, directly within LIFELENZ Single Page Web Applications.
• Explore new and emerging web technologies to deliver engaging, immersive, and meaningful user experiences.
• You will work with the support of an Engineering Team Lead, Web Tech Lead and fellow software engineers working to bring new features to market by collaborating on requirements, confirming specifications, and developing appropriate production-grade implementations that operate at scale for a global user base.
• On a daily basis you will actively participate in a fast-paced software development process as part of an agile product engineering team, writing and reviewing code primarily in typed JavaScript (i.e. TypeScript).
• You will interact with UX / UI designers, product managers, architects and test analysts for this product to clarify requirements, understand scope changes that arise from time to time, debug complex issues and resolve bugs.

Knowledge, Experience & Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years' development experience and strong experience working with complex/feature-rich Single Page Applications (e.g. Aurelia, React, Vue), HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern web development concepts including:
• Unit and end to end testing strategies and frameworks.
• Performance profiling and optimisation.
• State management patterns and component-based architectures.
• Web application security best practices and accessibility standards.
• Demonstrated experience working with change management / version control systems
• Strong problem-solving skills and autonomy to identify issues, propose solutions, and drive initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

Highly Desired

• Knowledge of build tools and bundlers (Webpack, Vite, or similar).
• Demonstrated experience with CSS preprocessors, Tailwind, WebSocket, GraphQL.
• Experience or knowledge of application monitoring tools (Sentry, BugSnag, APM).
• Demonstrated experience driving code quality improvements and technical initiatives through hands-on development.
• Design system implementation with tools such as Figma, Storybook and Chromatic
• Demonstrated experience working on complex products, large codebases, Monorepos, framework migrations and modernisation efforts.
• Broad knowledge and interest in web technologies such as PWA, Micro Front Ends, etc.

Nice to have

• Experience and knowledge of backend development including architecture patterns, API design principles, and server-side technologies (Rails, Node.JS, Python, Java, or similar)
• Experience with Docker, containerisation technologies, and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes or similar).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment strategies.
• Experience with feature flags, web analytics and A/B testing.

LIFELENZ Values:

As an employee at LIFELENZ, you are expected to operate in line with our workplace values:

• Customer Centricity
• Disruptive Innovation
• Take The Hill Teamwork
• Extreme Ownership
• Simple, Small, Now
• Embrace Ambiguity
• Collaborative Autonomy

Why LIFELENZ?

We are a ground-breaking platform with a unique vision (we can't give away our secrets here). If you like working in a collaborative environment which values inclusion, flexibility and challenging the status quo then we would love to hear from you

We have office locations in Adelaide, Chicago, Washington D.C, and people based in Australia, US, Canada, and the UK.

Our growth is led by working with some of the largest companies in the world. We are always on the lookout for aspiring individuals, who are naturally curious, with tenacious problem-solving and critical thinking skills. If you feel this role is for you, please apply – an enthusiastic, high performing team awaits

Join our team today

At this time, we are looking for suitably qualified candidates who currently reside in Australia and have the right to work without sponsorship.