Senior Backend Engineer - 3 to 6 Months Contract

Contract Senior Backend Engineer - 3 to 6 Months Contract

Melbourne, Australia

The Impact You'll Make (Key Responsibilities) - Golang preferred

Architect Distributed Backends: Own the backend system design, database schemas, and API architecture for large-scale enterprise solutions.

High-Performance Engineering: Build and optimize highly loaded, fault tolerant distributed systems-resolving complex bottlenecks, memory leaks, and CPU utilization challenges.

Integrate the Cloud Engine: Seamlessly bridge application code with Google Cloud native resources, deploying microservices to containerized and serverless environments (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions).

Data & Streaming Performance: Design and consume clean gRPC and RESTful APIs while optimizing transactional data flows utilizing BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, or message brokers (Kafka/PubSub).

Maintain the Bar: Enforce rigorous engineering governance-conducting strict code reviews, building end to end unit/integration testing mocks, and ensuring clean software design patterns across the cross regional team.

Local Market Presence: Collaborate occasionally with client technical stakeholders in the Melbourne CBD to lead architecture alignments or unpack intricate backend system requirements.

What You Bring to the Table (Requirements)

The Tenure: 8-10 years of professional backend software engineering experience, with a solid, focus heavy portfolio of shipping production grade services at scale.

Language Proficiency: Strong programming roots with hands on proficiency in one or more general purpose languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C++, or Node.js), backed by an intuitive understanding of clean code and object oriented or functional design patterns.

Cloud Native Blueprinting: Production experience building applications engineered explicitly for cloud environments, including deep familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes manifests, and IaC (Terraform) principles.

The Consulting Polish: Exceptional English communication skills. You can explain complex distributed systems trade offs (like data replication lags or network stream state management) to an enterprise client's engineering lead with absolute clarity.

The Market Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)

The Go Advantage: Strong production experience writing idiomatic, highly optimized Golang services, with deep knowledge of Go's memory model, profiling tools (pprof), and concurrency primitives.

GCP Architecture Alignment: Active Google Cloud certifications (Professional Cloud Architect or Developer) or a deep familiarity with GCP identity paradigms (IAM, OAuth, VPC Service Controls).

Local Sector Familiarity: Previous experience architecting backends within highly regulated Australian sectors (e.g., Core Banking, Digital Lending, Energy, or Telecommunications).

AI First Mindset: Comfort using or implementing AI assisted engineering tools (e.g., Gemini Code Assist) to maximize your daily prototyping and test suite building velocity.

The Aviato Edge (Why Partner With Us?)

Ex Google Pedigree: Work side by side with engineers and founders who built their careers at Google, operating within a zero politics, high IQ environment.

True Hybrid Autonomy: We trust you to "make good choices" regarding your workspace-collaborate seamlessly from your home in Victoria, checking in on site with clients in Melbourne when milestones demand.

The "Hard No" List (Don't apply if )

You are a script writer who handles backend infrastructure casually. We need an advanced software engineer who understands structural system design.

You prefer isolated, ticket pulling tasks over actively contributing to structural design choices and mentoring junior delivery pairs.

You view security, observability, and tracing (Prometheus/OpenTelemetry) as "the DevOps team's problem."