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.\"

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ContractSenior Backend Engineer - 3 to 6 Months Contract