Senior Software Engineer (Node, AWS and AI)

About the role

Settify, an Australian legal technology company helping lawyers help people, is rebuilding its consumer-facing AI/LegalTech product from the ground up. This role sits at the intersection of software and platform engineering, focusing on the AI infrastructure, platform and deployment pipelines. It is a flexible, hybrid Sydney-based position (3 days in the Barangaroo office, 2 days WFH) within a team of 5 Sydney and 3 international engineers.

Key responsibilities

• Build backend services in TypeScript / Node.js (APIs, data model, business logic, LLM integrations) and own meaningful slices of the product end to end
• Own the AWS infrastructure (Lambda, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, VPC, IAM) managed as code with CDK
• Improve CI/CD pipelines so developers can build, test, deploy and roll back with confidence
• Own the AI infrastructure powering LLM features: model access, Langfuse tracing, token/cost/latency monitoring, eval pipelines, rate limits, retries and timeouts
• Add observability to the delivery pipeline: alert design, SLI/SLO definition, incident response
• Support regional deployments and keep customer data secure (IAM, secrets, encryption, backups), working toward SOC 2

Required profile

• 8+ years building and shipping production software, ideally owning the platform it ran on
• CS or engineering degree, or equivalent depth
• Experience with LLM observability tools (Langfuse, Phoenix, Helicone) in production, multi-region cloud deployments, and regulated industries such as LegalTech, FinTech or HealthTech
• Security-aware development: auth patterns, OWASP basics, secrets management, PII handling

Required skills

• Node.js and TypeScript
• AWS (Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, VPC, IAM)
• Infrastructure as code: CDK or Terraform
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar, automated testing, deployments and rollbacks
• Observability: Datadog, Grafana/Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Postgres, DynamoDB or similar, with schema design, indexing and migrations
• Light React familiarity

What we offer

• Flexible and hybrid working
• Wellbeing days, free gym membership, corporate dental plan and weekly office massages
• Catered lunch and breakfast, fully stocked kitchen
• LEAP Home program supporting purchase of a primary residence