Senior Backend Engineer C2

2 weeks ago

Sydney NSW, Australia DroneShield Full time $150,000 - $250,000 per year

Work with cutting edge AI technology, making the world a safer and more secure place. DroneShield (ASX:DRO) offers an opportunity to solve some of world's most challenging technical problems in the rapidly growing counterdrone sector. Our customers are militaries, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure, law enforcement and many others.

With one of the largest listed defence company market capitalisations in Australia, part of the ASX200 index, and having raised approximately $250m in 2024 alone, DroneShield is undergoing hypergrowth stage, fuelled by rapidly increasing use of drones for nefarious applications, from battlefield, to terrorism, to contraband delivery and commercial espionage.

This role is in the DroneShield Sydney headquarters in Sydney CBD. There are approximately 380 staff based in the 4,000sqm facility today, scheduled to grow to approximately 500 staff by end of 2026. Overseas on the ground presence includes Virginia (USA), Netherlands, Denmark, Mexico and Dubai, as well as distributors in over 70 countries globally.

About the role

The company is seeking a strong Backend Engineer with relevant experience to join the development team in Sydney.

The role is primarily focused on the development of DroneShield product DroneSentry-C2 .

Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations

  • Contribute to the development of our C2 product to meet the demanding operational requirements in real-world deployments aligned to the long-term product vision
  • Design and develop features from conceptualisation to realisation working closely with the global software engineering team

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
  • More than 5 years' experience in software development
  • Experience developing with Golang, or relevant typed languages (C++/Rust)
  • Experience working with two or more from the following: distributed and parallel systems, Unix/Linux environments, web application development, developing large software systems, and/or security software development
  • Experience developing microservices infrastructure is ideal
  • Previous 'start-up' or 'scale-up' experience is favourable
  • Familiar with Docker, Postman, GitLab, AWS is favourable.
  • You are a lifelong learner. You're self-taught and continuously learning. You are interested in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise
  • You are experienced working with modern infrastructure and tools
  • You are comfortable running your software in Linux environments
  • You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery, defensive programming and automated testing
  • You're familiar with designing and building distributed and scalable systems
  • An abundance of ambition and motivation to grow the company and compete with the big players in the industry

Note for recruitment agencies: we do not accept floated candidates from external recruiters unless they were instructed to do so.

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