Senior Software Engineer

Next Play Ventures

Peregian Beach, Sunshine Coast QLD (Hybrid)

Engineering Software (Information & Communication Technology)

Full time

Are you a Senior Software Engineer who wants to build at the cutting edge of AI, in a small team where you can ship something in the morning and have people using it that afternoon?

You will work as a true forward deployed engineer, staying close to the people using the product and the problems they are trying to solve. You will help create the best data product for Australia's startup and scaleup ecosystem.

This is a role for someone who wants to architect, orchestrate and ship. Someone who cares deeply about quality, understands business value and enjoys problems where the answer has not already been figured out.

What you'll do

Architect, build and maintain Next Play's software product and the AI services behind it.

Design and orchestrate multi agent systems that research, validate and connect candidate and company data.

Build across our production systems, including data infrastructure, search, authentication and background processing.

Work alongside our recruiters, founders and users. Ship improvements, see how people use them and iterate quickly.

Own technical decisions, code quality, reliability and data accuracy.

A little about Next Play

Next Play is building a data product that lets talent teams and founders ask incredibly specific questions about the people they want to hire and get accurate answers back.

You can ask our agent:

"Find me an AI engineer in Sydney with extensive front end experience, a design background and experience inside VC backed companies as they grew from Series A to Series C."

Or:

"Find me a Head of Growth for a PLG SaaS product who owned self serve revenue, moved a business from founder led sales to self serve and built a small team."

And watch it find the match.

Building a product was the plan from day one. We started with a high end recruitment agency so we could work on real problems. The business is now profitable and growing, our recruiters use the product every day and the feedback loop is immediate.

Some of Australia's top scaleups have been blown away by what such a small team has built. The small team is intentional. We are curious generalists who figure things out when we do not know the answer.

The product is working, the business is growing and we know what we want to build next. We have reached the point where we want another experienced engineer alongside us to help make it happen.

About you

You have at least eight years of experience building complex software. Your value comes from how you think, the architecture you design and your ability to bring the whole product together.

You have made difficult architectural decisions and bring strong systems thinking.

You have built production software with TypeScript and Next.js and understand databases, authentication and background processing.

You have been using AI development tools since early on and know how to build and orchestrate multi agent systems.

You use agents to increase your output while maintaining a high bar for code quality. You understand the code and take responsibility for what ships.

You stay curious about the problem, want to understand how people use what you build and care about the business value it creates.

You are comfortable working directly with founders, moving quickly and making decisions without perfect information.

You enjoy working with technical and non technical people. At NextPlay, everyone contributes to the product and everyone ships.

Recruitment experience would be useful, but it is desirable rather than essential.

How we work

This full time role is based in our office at the Peregian Digital Hub in Peregian Beach. We work closely in person, with flexibility to work from home a few days each week and make the role work sensibly around your life.

We care about outcomes. What you deliver, how well it works and the value it creates.

We review applications as they come in.

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Contact Kris at kris@nextplay.ai