Last updated: 2025-05-22

20 Backend Engineer jobs in Sydney.

Hiring now: Software Engr Dev Exp @ Canva, Software Engr @ Mathspace, Technical Lead Backendful @ Prezzee, Elixir Dev @ Og Startup, Backend Software Engr @ Starling B, Sr Backend Engr Nodejs @ Luxoft, Software Engr @ Upguard, Sr Software Engr Netsoft @ Google, Sr Software Engr @ Constantin, Sr Software Engr @ Cover Geni.Explore more at at kaamvaam.com

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AWS (8) Django (5) GraphQL (4) Java (4) Microservices (4) CI/CD (4) APIs (3) Python (3) Software Engineering (3) distributed systems (3)

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Sydney (20)
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Canva

Software Engineer - Developer Experience Sydney
Skills & Focus: backend solutions, scalable, reliable, secure, performance, APIs, cross-team collaboration, developer experience, design reviews, cloud technologies
About the Company: Canva is a platform for discovering and accessing visual design services, collaborating with developers via Apps SDK and REST API.

Mathspace

Software Engineer Sydney
Skills & Focus: software engineering, communication skills, Python, GraphQL, Django, quality, design, user experience, web products, agile
About the Company: Mathspace is on a mission to change maths education, by helping students and teachers with smarter, interactive learning software. We’re an agile run, product-…
Experience: Industry experience in web products
Salary: Competitive salary
Type: Full-time
Benefits: Comfortable office environment, necessary equipment provided, flexible work-from-home policy, yearly stipend for traini…

Prezzee

Technical Lead (Backend/Fullstack) Sydney
Skills & Focus: Technical Lead, Backend, Fullstack, DevOps, Python, Django, GraphQL, MicroServices, Software Engineering, Team Leadership
About the Company: At Prezzee, we’re more than just a digital gifting platform – we’re building human connections through unforgettable gifting moments. With over 1,000 brand par…
Type: Full-time
Benefits: Incentive schemes based on company-wide targets and individual performance, employee referral program, flexible hours, …

Canva

Backend Engineer Sydney
Skills & Focus: backend development, Java, API, microservices, AWS, NoSQL, Learning Management Systems, SAML, SSO, mentorship
About the Company: Canva is a graphic design platform that simplifies creating and sharing visual content worldwide.
Type: Full-time
Benefits: Equity packages, inclusive parental leave policy, annual Vibe & Thrive allowance, flexible leave options.
Backend Engineer - Conversational AI Sydney
Skills & Focus: backend services, Conversational AI, high-performance, API, scalable infrastructure, real-time data pipelines, observability, monitoring, machine learning integration, distributed systems
About the Company: Canva is a design platform that empowers users to create stunning visual content with ease.
Experience: 5+ years of backend engineering experience
Benefits: Equity packages, parental leave, wellbeing allowance, flexible leave

Og Startup

Elixir Developer Sydney
Skills & Focus: Elixir, Erlang, Gleam, Distributed Systems, Fault-tolerant, Event-driven architectures, Cloud integrations, AI infrastructure, Real-time data pipelines, Security best practices
About the Company: We move fast. We ship weekly—new features, improvements, and fixes go live fast. Our infra runs cluster scale up tests daily. We test big. Every month, we stre…
Experience: Deep experience with Elixir, Erlang or Gleam and OTP, experience building event-driven architectures, strong understanding of distributed databases and state management
Type: Full-time

Canva

Staff Software Engineer Sydney
Skills & Focus: distributed web applications, JVM, Java, architectural changes, communication skills, mentoring, cloud environments, data processing systems, AI powered applications, decision-making platforms
About the Company: Canva is a team dedicated to redefining how the world experiences design, providing a diverse mix of engineers, product managers, and designers to build impact…
Experience: Experience developing distributed web applications on the JVM, strong communication and teamwork skills, guiding and mentoring engineers, working in large distributed cloud environments
Type: Full-time
Benefits: Equity packages, inclusive parental leave policy, annual Vibe & Thrive allowance, flexible leave options

Starling Bank

Backend Software Engineer Sydney
Skills & Focus: Backend Software Engineering, Java, AWS, GCP, Microservices, Kubernetes, Continuous Deployment, Clean Coding, Agile, Innovative Digital Features
About the Company: Starling Bank is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking with more than 3,000 people in our UK offices and 4 million customers in t…
Type: Full-time
Benefits: 25 days holiday, the option to opt-out of public holidays, the option to buy/sell up to 5 days of annual leave a year, …
Backend Software Engineer Sydney
Skills & Focus: Backend, Software, Engineer, Java, AWS, GCP, Microservices, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD
About the Company: Starling Bank is the UK’s first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking with more than 3,000 people in our UK offices and 4 MILLION customers in t…
Type: Full-time
Benefits: 25 days holiday, option to opt-out of public holidays, option to buy/sell up to 5 days of annual leave a year, 16 hours…

Luxoft

Senior Back-end Engineer (NodeJS) Sydney
Skills & Focus: Back-end development, NodeJS, Microservices, Kubernetes, API design, Java Spring Boot, AWS, CI/CD, Kafka, Agile development
About the Company: Luxoft is a global technology consultancy that provides solutions in software engineering and IT services that enable businesses to achieve their growth potent…
Experience: 7+ years
Type: Full-time

Upguard

Software Engineer Sydney
Skills & Focus: cybersecurity, SaaS platform, third-party risk, data presentation, webscale problems, big data, high throughput, massive concurrency, software performance, security posture
About the Company: UpGuard’s mission is to protect the world’s data. We obsessively seek out elegant, robust ways to enable our customers to find, acknowledge, and remediate cybe…
Experience: Skilled Software Engineers
Type: Full-time

Google

Senior Software Engineer, NetSoft Sydney
Skills & Focus: software development, distributed systems, networking, large-scale system design, fault-tolerant systems, data processing, integration testing, scalability, cloud infrastructure, network performance
About the Company: Google is a global technology company that develops internet-based services and products.
Experience: 5 years of experience with software development, 3 years testing/maintaining software products, 1 year with software design and architecture
Type: Full-time

Constantinople

Senior Software Engineer Sydney
Skills & Focus: software solutions, cloud-native infrastructure, banking platform, reliability, scalability, security, designing, developing, cross-functional teams, automation
About the Company: Constantinople is the first of its kind: an all-in-one software and operational platform for banks, providing cloud-native infrastructure and a comprehensive s…

Prezzee

Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Fullstack) Sydney
Skills & Focus: Python, Django, FastAPI, GraphQL, AWS, CI/CD, MicroServices, testing, collaboration, mentoring
About the Company: Prezzee is a digital gifting platform building human connections through unforgettable gifting moments with over 1,000 brand partners globally, transforming ho…
Type: Full-time
Benefits: Incentive schemes, Employee referral program, Flexible hours, 30-day work-from-anywhere benefit, Professional growth op…

Cover Genius

Senior Software Engineer Sydney
Skills & Focus: senior software engineer, data monitoring, AI adoption, chatbot functionalities, insurance operations optimizations, Django, FastAPI, offline PyPI packages, innovation, reliability
About the Company: Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, Intuit, Uber, and …

Lyka

Engineering Manager Sydney
Skills & Focus: Software Engineering, Engineering Management, Cloud Software, Typescript, Microservices, Postgres, AWS, Cross-functional collaboration, Customer retention, Sustainability
About the Company: Lyka is an Australian founded pet wellness company focused on improving pet health through nutritionally balanced, wholefood meals delivered to homes across Au…
Experience: 10+ years of Software Engineering experience, 5+ years of Engineering Management experience
Type: Full-time
Benefits: Growth and Development opportunities, flexibility in working hours, parental leave top-up, wellbeing assistance, pet-fr…

Blinq

Senior Backend Engineer Sydney
Skills & Focus: APIs, services, identity sharing, real-time analytics, design systems, scaling, architectural decisions, performance, reliability, abstraction
About the Company: At Blinq, we believe the first interaction can spark opportunities that last a lifetime. That’s why we built the world’s #1 digital business card - an instant,…

Airwallex

Engineering Lead - Yield Sydney
Skills & Focus: engineering, financial infrastructure, distributed systems, scalability, backend technologies, Kotlin, cloud technologies, GCP, AWS, multi-functional teams
About the Company: Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, empowering over 150,000 businesses worldwide with integrated solutions to …
Type: Full time
Benefits: Industry-leading salaries, equity, on-site snacks, annual wellness spend, mental wellness support, paid birthday leave,…

Cover Genius

Software Engineer II Sydney
Skills & Focus: Software Engineer, AI Implementations, APIs, Django, FastAPI, Rest, GraphQL, Code Quality, CI/CD Tooling, Technical Documentation
About the Company: Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, Intuit, Uber, and …
Experience: Intermediate-level expertise
Type: Full-time

Bjss

Principal Software Engineer Sydney
Skills & Focus: Software Engineering, Backend Development, Prototype Solutions, DevOps, AWS, Azure, Agile, CI/CD, Spring Boot, SQL
About the Company: We’re an award-winning innovative tech consultancy - a team of creative problem solvers. Since 1993 we’ve been finding better, more sustainable ways to solve c…
Type: Full-time
Benefits: An industry-leading referral scheme, hybrid working options, training opportunities, and a busy social calendar.