Senior Software Engineer – Tech Enablement Team

Hiring Senior Software Engineer for Tech Enablement Team at Amber, focusing on supporting engineering staff in a sustainable energy start-up.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeMelbourne • 🇦🇺 AustraliaSenior💰 A$155,000 - A$200,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDynamoDBJavaScriptNode.jsPostgresReactTypeScript

Key responsibilities & impact

Make sustainable and high quality technical contributions across the stack in the areas of your speciality
Flexibly contribute outside your speciality in other areas of the stack supporting colleagues when they need it
Work collaboratively with your peers in product and across the wider company to ensure you're always shipping the right thing the right way at the right time
Mentor and support other members of the engineering team
Take high level ownership of technical design and project delivery

What you’ll need

You have a **positive mindset**: equal parts curious, collaborative, and can-do
A **minimum of 5 years of commercial software development experience** in product development, DevOps, platform or SRE teams
**Experience and opinions** about several of the following:
- AWS, particularly serverless architectures, Cloud-formation, Lambda, IAM, DynamoDB, and Aurora Postgres
- Infrastructure as code tools and practices
- CI/CD tooling and practices
- Observability
- Incident Management and on-call practices
- Typescript, JavaScript and the Node.js ecosystem
- React, React-Native and the expo ecosystem
A **pragmatic** and **customer focused** approach to collaboration
**Strong verbal and written communication skills** built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans is essential

Comp & perks

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world.
You’d be a part of a rapidly growing team of over 200 with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations.
Be part of a growing technology start-up that will shape the future of household and grid energy use.
Enjoy a lively, collaborative workspace at our buzzing Melbourne CBD headquarters in the heart of the city
Flexible working hours with provision for regular work from home arrangements.
Equitable gender-neutral parental leave policies.
An external Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for mental health support.
Competitive salary and share options in Amber.
Annual Learning & Development budget to support your personal growth.
Additional PTO between Xmas & New Year

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Hard Skills & Tools

software developmentAWSserverless architecturesCloudFormationLambdaIAMDynamoDBAurora PostgresTypescriptJavaScript

Soft Skills

positive mindsetcuriouscollaborativecan-dopragmaticcustomer focusedstrong verbal communicationstrong written communicationempathymentoring