Senior Platform Engineer
RecordPoint
Software Engineering
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Posted on May 9, 2025
RecordPoint is a data and information lifecycle management SaaS product designed to give highly-regulated organizations a competitive edge through safer, more secure, and better-managed data. We're a disruptor in our industry, set apart from competitors by our cutting edge technology and innovation-first mindset.
Our global customer list includes top-tier brands and government agencies like the City of New York, Westpac, National Australia Bank (NAB), Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), Security Benefit, Cupertino Electric, Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC), Transport for NSW, Ausgrid, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), and Delaware Life.
But there's more to us than the what we do — like the who behind it all. Team RecordPoint is made up of 100+ tech-driven professionals at the top of their respective fields. Together, we foster a supportive, collaborative and transparent environment, collectively working toward the singular goal of continuously doing better.
While we've got all the perks you'd expect — think truly flexible work arrangements, generous paid parental leave, 4 weeks annual leave and Employee Share Options — you might find that the greatest benefit of all, is the team you join.
Scope:
As a Senior Platform Engineer at RecordPoint, you are an experienced professional who uses their expertise and problem-solving skills to collaboratively develop new features and improve on existing components of our SaaS platform.
You will run technical streams of work coordinating several other engineers as you research, scope, design, estimate, and implement new features. You’ll be involved in determining the future set of features we take on for the platform and how we address technical debt. Your passion and curiosity will drive us to continue to innovate and push the status quo higher. You will be both an individual contributor and an exemplary teammate.
You'll Be Responsible for:
- Developing and maintaining platforms, tooling, and software applications for our clients, ensuring the highest level of quality, reliability, and performance.
- Help to design, build, test, and support the platform and tooling for the wider Application Engineering team.
- Participating in the design and build of a secure-by-design environment with our customer's data privacy concerns in mind
- Providing technical leadership and mentorship to other team members of all levels of seniority including graduates and junior engineers
- Participating in code reviews and ensure that coding standards and best practices are followed.
- Taking ownership of the productionisation, robustness and scalability of features.
- Working with cross-functional teams to ensure that software applications are integrated with other systems as required.
- Keeping up to date with the latest developments in software engineering and technology, and apply them to the development of our software applications.
What You'll Do:
- Drive large, complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch
- Act as Technical Lead on streams of work within the team providing guidance and management of several engineers
- Determine plans of attack on large projects; guiding implementation phases, translation of high level requirements / design into work items for engineers working on your stream of work
- Tackle complex architectural challenges, and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
- Partner across engineering teams to tackle company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
- Mentor more junior members of the team
- Identify gaps and technical debt and help shape them into future streams of technical work to improve the reliability, performance, and usability of the platform or just to reduce toil
- Help to define and ensure data compliance/governance in accordance with different frameworks and legislation across the globe
- Work with our internal Risk team as well as 3rd party auditors and penetration testing groups to validate the security and compliance of the platform and product
About You:
- Exceptional problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Extensive experience crafting and building software using the latest delivery techniques
- A real passion for quality, clean code, and continuous improvementA strong understanding of architectural concepts and cloud-based solution designHighly dedicated ethos.
- Take end-to-end of the work you're doing
- Demonstrable ability to motivate self and others, and a passion to mentor junior engineers
- Ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions
- A real appetite for learning and growing, both as an individual and teammate.
- A test-and-learn mindset with an emphasis on curiosity, collaboration, and care
Some of the technologies and patterns we’re working on:
- .NET Core, .NET Framework, C#, Python, Angular 14+ and Typescript
- Distributed systems, microservices, machine learning, event streaming
- Continuous Delivery & DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless, Azure Search, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, Terraform, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Service Bus, and Azure Event Hubs
Why RecordPoint:
- Fast-growth Australian-owned company
- Flexible work environment and a strong focus on work-life harmony
- Innovation is our way of life
- Personal Development budget for all staff
- Access to Employee Stock Ownership Plan
- A brilliant graduate program that provides both mentoring and growth opportunities for all
- Work on a product that makes a real social-good impact on the world
- Global opportunities!
Know more:
By checking us out on all the usual platforms, and especially our About Us https://www.recordpoint.com/about
or our Life at RecordPoint blog: https://www.recordpoint.com/blog/what-its-like-to-work-at-recordpoint
How to apply:
Click the 'apply now' button send us your CV.
RecordPoint is an equal opportunities employer.
We offer a fast-paced, dedicated and enjoyable environment, working with some of the best people in the industry.
If you want to know what to expect from a RecordPoint application process, read more here: https://www.recordpoint.com/careers
No recruiters please, we've got this one covered.
You will need to pass a police background check to be eligible for employment at RecordPoint.