Staff Full Stack GraphQL Engineer
Staff-level full stack engineer in Sydney (on-site) building high-performance TypeScript applications (React, Next.js, Node.js) and production federated GraphQL systems (Apollo Federation/Router) on AWS, with end-to-end ownership of architecture, CI/CD, and production operations for enterprise environments.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Sydney NSW
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proven commercial experience operating at Staff Engineer level, leading technical delivery and mentoring engineers
- Extensive hands-on experience designing production federated GraphQL architectures (subgraphs, entity resolution, performance tuning with DataLoader and complexity controls)
- Deep production-grade TypeScript expertise on both client (React, Next.js) and server (Node.js) tiers
- Extensive commercial experience deploying and operating workloads on AWS, CI/CD pipelines, Docker containerisation, and distributed tracing telemetry
- Consultant identity: trusted technical partner who takes complete ownership of business outcomes and drives solutions
- High-energy thought leader bringing enthusiasm, strategic vision, and hands-on technical leadership
- Proactive problem solver who clarifies boundaries and constraints and collaborates on execution paths
- Respects legacy design decisions and regulatory limitations while navigating constraints pragmatically
Nice to have
- Experience with Apollo Federation, Apollo Router, schema composition, breaking-change checks, and entity resolution across multiple teams
Full description
Our black belt specialists are leaders in their domains, serving as digital champions, delivery focused experts, top tier security professionals, AI thought leaders, and engineering best practice advocates.
As 1 of Australia's fastest growing software businesses, Software at Scale delivers cutting edge technology solutions that power mission critical platforms. We solve complex engineering challenges at scale, driving quality, performance, and resilience through the strength of our people.
The Role and The Challenge
We are seeking an exceptional, highly energetic, and proactive Staff Full Stack AI & GraphQL Engineer who acts as an elite technical partner rather than a transactional ticket taker. You will inject momentum into complex enterprise environments, eliminate operational inertia, and lead the technical delivery of high-performance TypeScript ecosystems powered by advanced federated GraphQL.
If you are content with picking up standard tickets, writing boilerplate code, or consuming basic APIs without understanding deep architecture, this is not the role for you. We want a true domain leader who brings high energy, challenges the status quo with respectful thought leadership, and takes complete architectural ownership of large-scale federated systems. You will step into a high trust and fully empowered environment where you will design domain-owned subgraphs into full-stack services, evaluate system performance, and own production operations end to end inside AWS.
Access to AI Tooling: We believe in removing friction so you can focus on solving hard problems. You will have full access to enterprise AI tooling, including Claude Code, to assist you in accelerating code generation, refactoring, and pipeline management.
Key Responsibilities
- Thought Leadership and Squad Uplift: Act as an energetic domain leader, energising engineering squads, providing constructive architectural guidance with empathy, and raising engineering standards from day 1.
- Federated GraphQL Architecture: Design and build production-grade federated GraphQL systems (supergraphs and subgraphs) using Apollo Federation, Apollo Router, or equivalent technologies, managing schema composition, breaking-change checks, and entity resolution across multiple teams.
- High-Performance Data Modeling: Model complex financial data domains, implementing DataLoader batching and caching patterns, query depth limits, complexity controls, persisted queries, and production introspection security.
- End-to-End TypeScript Mastery: Design and build high-performance applications using React, Next.js, and Node.js within complex monorepo architectures, ensuring optimal Core Web Vitals and secure server-side boundaries.
- AWS DevOps and CI/CD Automation: Deploy and scale workloads inside AWS, managing containerisation, automated GitHub Actions pipelines incorporating GraphQL schema validation, and secure secret management via secure vaults.