Software Engineer | Full Stack | Botany, Sydney | Onsite (hybrid)

Our client builds some of the most advanced software-defined satellite ground stations in the world. Customers across earth observation, commercial comms and defence-grade space domain awareness. Small senior team, properly technical.

They're hiring a polyglot software engineer to own the entire software stack – embedded firmware through to operator UIs.

The work

• Own end-to-end architecture across embedded, Linux, backend and front-end
• Architect beamformer orchestration for phased array antennas – deterministic, low-latency control
• Build defence-grade software (security, auditability, fault tolerance) alongside commercial satcom applications
• Firmware in C/C++ on RTOS and bare-metal, plus production Linux services on Azure (Pipelines, Terraform, K8s)
• Operator UIs in React, Vue or Angular meeting ground-station reliability standards
• Set engineering standards, drive code quality and review culture

You will bring

• 5+ years experience, across multiple languages
• Deep C/C++ for embedded and systems, strong Python for backend and tooling
• Solid Linux internals knowledge and software architecture chops (REST, microservices, SQL/NoSQL)
• Practical front-end experience in React, Vue or Angular
• Working knowledge of cryptography (TLS, PKI, KMS/HSM) and secure development (OWASP, CERT C/C++)
• Track record on CI/CD pipelines (Azure Pipelines preferred) and observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Confident use of AI coding assistants (Copilot, Claude)
• Bonus: beamformer or phased array experience, defence/aerospace background, Azure or security certifications

Why care

• Genuinely full-stack ownership from RTOS firmware to React UIs – almost no Australian shop offers this scope
• Hardware-meets-cloud problems most engineers never get to touch
• Series A stage with ESOP participation – real equity upside, not just a salary
• World-class Australian research being commercialised at pace, with global commercial and defence customers
• Small senior team, minimal committee culture

3 stage process and it moves quickly. Onsite Botany, currently 3 days a week. Unique opportuntiy, for the right person a real career maker! Apply now!