Last updated: 2025-06-06

35 Backend Engineer jobs in Sydney.

Hiring now: Software Engineer Ii @ Cover Geni, Sr Software Engineer @ Constantin, Eng Manager @ Lyka, Software Engineer @ Mathspace, Software Engineer @ Upguard, Staff Software Engineer @ Canva, Elixir Developer @ Og Startup, Backend Software Engineer @ Starling B, Eng Lead Yield @ Airwallex, Technical Lead Backendfullstack @ Prezzee. Explore more at at jobswithgpt.com

🔥 Skills

AWS (7) Java (6) Django (4) GCP (4) GraphQL (3) reliability (3) scalability (3) Microservices (3) Kubernetes (3) APIs (2)

📍 Locations

Sydney (23)

Cover Genius

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 …

Software Engineer II

Sydney

  • Skills: Software Engineer, AI Implementations, APIs, Django, FastAPI, Rest, GraphQL, Code Quality, CI/CD Tooling, Technical Documentation
  • Experience: Intermediate-level expertise
  • Type: Full-time

Constantinople

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…

Senior Software Engineer

Sydney

  • Skills: software solutions, cloud-native infrastructure, banking platform, reliability, scalability, security, designing, developing, cross-functional teams, automation

Lyka

Lyka is an Australian founded pet wellness company focused on improving pet health through nutritionally balanced, wholefood meals delivered to homes across Au…

Engineering Manager

Sydney

  • Skills: Software Engineering, Engineering Management, Cloud Software, Typescript, Microservices, Postgres, AWS, Cross-functional collaboration, Customer retention, Sustainability
  • Experience: 10+ years of Software Engineering experience, 5+ years of Engineering Management experience
  • Type: Full-time

Mathspace

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-…

Software Engineer

Sydney

  • Skills: software engineering, communication skills, Python, GraphQL, Django, quality, design, user experience, web products, agile
  • Experience: Industry experience in web products
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: Competitive salary

UpGuard

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…

Software Engineer

Sydney

  • Skills: cybersecurity, SaaS platform, third-party risk, data presentation, webscale problems, big data, high throughput, massive concurrency, software performance, security posture
  • Experience: Skilled Software Engineers
  • Type: Full-time

Canva

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…

Staff Software Engineer

Sydney

  • Skills: distributed web applications, JVM, Java, architectural changes, communication skills, mentoring, cloud environments, data processing systems, AI powered applications, decision-making platforms
  • 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

OG Startup

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…

Elixir Developer

Sydney

  • Skills: Elixir, Erlang, Gleam, Distributed Systems, Fault-tolerant, Event-driven architectures, Cloud integrations, AI infrastructure, Real-time data pipelines, Security best practices
  • 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

Canva is a graphic design platform that empowers individuals and teams to create stunning designs efficiently.

Java Backend Developer

Sydney

  • Skills: Java, backend, scalable, reliable, REST APIs, databases, distributed systems, clean code, testing, collaborative
  • Experience: 3+ years
  • Type: Full-time

Starling Bank

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…

Backend Software Engineer

Sydney

  • Skills: Backend, Software, Engineer, Java, AWS, GCP, Microservices, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD
  • Type: Full-time

Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, empowering over 150,000 businesses worldwide with integrated solutions to …

Engineering Lead - Yield

Sydney

  • Skills: engineering, financial infrastructure, distributed systems, scalability, backend technologies, Kotlin, cloud technologies, GCP, AWS, multi-functional teams
  • Type: Full time

Canva

Canva is focused on creating an effective content creation ecosystem, building a comprehensive and truly local content library.

Backend Engineer

Sydney

  • Skills: Backend development, Java, high availability, large-scale services, AWS Cloud infrastructure, EC2, EKS, Terraform, database technologies, SQL
  • Experience: Strong proficiency in Backend development with Java, experience developing high availability, large-scale services.
  • Type: Full-time

Prezzee

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…

Technical Lead (Backend/Fullstack)

Sydney

  • Skills: Technical Lead, Backend, Fullstack, DevOps, Python, Django, GraphQL, MicroServices, Software Engineering, Team Leadership
  • Type: Full-time

Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and softwa…

Staff Backend Engineer, Procurement Suite

Sydney

  • Skills: Backend Engineer, REST APIs, Engineering practices, Cloud experience, GCP, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, software design, API design
  • Experience: 6+ years of experience in modern engineering practices focused on continuous integration and quality engineering.
  • Type: Full-time

Canva

Canva is a graphic design platform that simplifies creating and sharing visual content worldwide.

Backend Engineer

Sydney

  • Skills: backend development, Java, API, microservices, AWS, NoSQL, Learning Management Systems, SAML, SSO, mentorship
  • Type: Full-time

Blinq

Blinq is focused on building the world's #1 digital business card, helping people stay genuinely connected through intuitive tools.

Staff Backend Engineer

Sydney

  • Skills: Backend Engineering, System Architecture, Service Ownership, Infrastructure Scaling, Real-time Systems, High-impact Problems, User Experience, Team Collaboration, Code Quality, Impactful Solutions
  • Type: Full-time

Ofload

Ofload is transforming the freight industry in Australia by leveraging technology, data, and strategic partnerships to connect customers with efficient transpo…

Senior Software Engineer

Sydney

  • Skills: PHP, Laravel, SQL, Data Automation, Scalable Systems, Test Driven Development, DBT, BI Tools, Design Patterns, Git
  • Experience: Proven experience as a Senior Fullstack Engineer designing, developing, testing, deploying in PHP.
  • Type: Full-time

Blinq

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,…

Senior Backend Engineer

Sydney

  • Skills: APIs, services, identity sharing, real-time analytics, design systems, scaling, architectural decisions, performance, reliability, abstraction

ServiceNow

ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelli…

Senior Database Engineer

Sydney

  • Skills: Database Engineer, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SaaS, PaaS, Cloud Infrastructure, Unix, DevOps, ServiceNow
  • Type: full_time
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Culture Amp

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better worl…

Engineer - Platform - Communications

Sydney

  • Skills: Golang, Ruby, Kotlin, AWS, CDK, CI/CD, Kafka, Ruby on Rails, Rest API, Postgres
  • Type: full_time
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Constantinople

Constantinople is the first of its kind: an all-in-one software and operational platform for banks. We provide our banking clients with a cloud-native infrastr…

Senior Backend Engineer

Sydney

  • Skills: banking, cloud-native, automation, backend, scalability, security, React, React Native, cross-functional, UX
  • Type: full_time
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