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Staff Engineer - Back End
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Job Description
Grow your Career with Greenstone!
Permanent Opportunity
The Staff Engineer is responsible for helping domain teams design and implement effective technical solutions to customer and business problems in a scalable and maintainable way. They drive cross-team solution design to ensure architectural alignment and technical consistency, providing deep backend and platform expertise.
This role reports to the Principal Engineer and partners closely with them to create and evolve solution blueprints (target architectures, patterns, and guardrails) that teams can execute against. When needed, they work directly with product engineering teams to rescue initiatives such as diagnosing issues, unblocking delivery, and reducing technical risk through pragmatic leadership and hands-on contribution. A key focus of this role is executing the platform uplift strategy toward a decoupled, cloud-native architecture that increases resilience and responsiveness to change.
What are we looking for?
8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong portfolio of shipped products
Proficiency in multiple programming languages (e.g. C#, TypeScript, PowerShell) and development frameworks
Extensive experience with system design, architecture, and large-scale distributed systems
Strong understanding of database technologies, both relational and NoSQL
Experience with cloud platforms (ideally AWS), containerisation and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), Serverless technologies and event-driven cloud-native architectures
Experience working with various tools to design, orchestrate, test, build, release & monitor your work
Experience with Agile development methodologies and processes, e.g. Scrum, Kanban
Highly developed technical leadership, decision making and influencing skills
Embraces customer-first thinking and strives to balance technical priorities with pace of delivery
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and strategically
Our Promise to Our People
Benefits
We are passionate about our core values of Customer First, We Care, One Team, and Results Driven, which define how we approach our work. We recognise that our colleagues are the key to our success. That's why you can expect to be rewarded for the hard work you put in through job satisfaction, career development and the fantastic range of benefits we offer:
Fantastic employee benefits including flexi days, flexible working, annual $1200 travel/parking allowance & more.
State of the art building facilities including a dedicated & subsidised on-site company café (weekly free lunch) & on-site gym
Health & well-being initiatives and programs
Opportunity to take part in in-house leadership & emotional intelligence workshops
Quarterly award functions and a grand annual conference to recognise our people
Retail discounts e.g. movie tickets, Zoo passes, live shows + more
Morsl market (a fully automated self-serve, food and drink marketplace with a wide variety of meals, snacks and drinks)
Who We Are
Greenstone distributes insurance products under trusted brands in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Some of our brands are Buddy, Australian Seniors, New Zealand Seniors, OneChoice, Real Insurance, SPCA Pet Insurance, North Cover, FiftyUp, Guardian and Choosi.
We are the leading distributor of direct Insurance products in the Australian insurance market. Since launching into the Financial Services sector in 2007, Greenstone has experienced a commanding volume of growth being recognised for our credible brands, customer focused values and people-driven work culture.
We are passionate about our core values, which contribute towards the positive culture that supports our employees, our customers and our community.
Location
Great central location in Norwest Business Park, Norwest, only a short walk from Norwest Metro station and also direct bus access from Parramatta and Blacktown.
Apply Now
If this role interests you, we would love to hear from you!
Please remember to discuss your application with your manager and to complete an Internal Application form, which can be found on the Shine hub
If you have any questions or would like any further information about this
opportunity, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition Team for more
detail.
Permanent Opportunity
The Staff Engineer is responsible for helping domain teams design and implement effective technical solutions to customer and business problems in a scalable and maintainable way. They drive cross-team solution design to ensure architectural alignment and technical consistency, providing deep backend and platform expertise.
This role reports to the Principal Engineer and partners closely with them to create and evolve solution blueprints (target architectures, patterns, and guardrails) that teams can execute against. When needed, they work directly with product engineering teams to rescue initiatives such as diagnosing issues, unblocking delivery, and reducing technical risk through pragmatic leadership and hands-on contribution. A key focus of this role is executing the platform uplift strategy toward a decoupled, cloud-native architecture that increases resilience and responsiveness to change.
What are we looking for?
8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong portfolio of shipped products
Proficiency in multiple programming languages (e.g. C#, TypeScript, PowerShell) and development frameworks
Extensive experience with system design, architecture, and large-scale distributed systems
Strong understanding of database technologies, both relational and NoSQL
Experience with cloud platforms (ideally AWS), containerisation and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), Serverless technologies and event-driven cloud-native architectures
Experience working with various tools to design, orchestrate, test, build, release & monitor your work
Experience with Agile development methodologies and processes, e.g. Scrum, Kanban
Highly developed technical leadership, decision making and influencing skills
Embraces customer-first thinking and strives to balance technical priorities with pace of delivery
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and strategically
Our Promise to Our People
Benefits
We are passionate about our core values of Customer First, We Care, One Team, and Results Driven, which define how we approach our work. We recognise that our colleagues are the key to our success. That's why you can expect to be rewarded for the hard work you put in through job satisfaction, career development and the fantastic range of benefits we offer:
Fantastic employee benefits including flexi days, flexible working, annual $1200 travel/parking allowance & more.
State of the art building facilities including a dedicated & subsidised on-site company café (weekly free lunch) & on-site gym
Health & well-being initiatives and programs
Opportunity to take part in in-house leadership & emotional intelligence workshops
Quarterly award functions and a grand annual conference to recognise our people
Retail discounts e.g. movie tickets, Zoo passes, live shows + more
Morsl market (a fully automated self-serve, food and drink marketplace with a wide variety of meals, snacks and drinks)
Who We Are
Greenstone distributes insurance products under trusted brands in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Some of our brands are Buddy, Australian Seniors, New Zealand Seniors, OneChoice, Real Insurance, SPCA Pet Insurance, North Cover, FiftyUp, Guardian and Choosi.
We are the leading distributor of direct Insurance products in the Australian insurance market. Since launching into the Financial Services sector in 2007, Greenstone has experienced a commanding volume of growth being recognised for our credible brands, customer focused values and people-driven work culture.
We are passionate about our core values, which contribute towards the positive culture that supports our employees, our customers and our community.
Location
Great central location in Norwest Business Park, Norwest, only a short walk from Norwest Metro station and also direct bus access from Parramatta and Blacktown.
Apply Now
If this role interests you, we would love to hear from you!
Please remember to discuss your application with your manager and to complete an Internal Application form, which can be found on the Shine hub
If you have any questions or would like any further information about this
opportunity, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition Team for more
detail.
