We are looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer with a strong background in data streaming products, the Java ecosystem and team leadership. You will lead a talented team building a complex product suite using a modern stack: Java, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, Debezium, and React. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who can drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate closely with product management to deliver a product that solves our customers' most challenging data problems.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Sydney for our hybrid working model.

The ideal candidate for this role will have

• 6+ years of commercial software development experience with at least one JVM language such as Java, preferably using the Spring ecosystem
• 2+ years of experience leading, coaching, and mentoring a team of software engineers to achieve high-impact results
• Extensive product experience in the data streaming or data tooling space, especially with streaming data platforms such as Apache Kafka and Change Data Capture (CDC) tools like Debezium
• Extensive experience with relational and document data modeling and hands-on experience with at least one SQL database (Postgres, MySQL, etc) and at least one document database (e.g. MongoDB)
• Exposure to client-side technologies such as JavaScript and React is a plus
• Good understanding of algorithms, data structures and their time and space complexity
• Curiosity, a positive attitude, and a drive to continue learning
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Position Expectations

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Drive the architectural vision and long-term technical roadmap for the Data Migration product suite, ensuring it is scalable, reliable, and performant.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and other stakeholders to define product features and translate business requirements into robust technical designs.
• Lead the design and implementation of complex, mission-critical components of our data streaming and migration platform.
• Champion and enforce engineering best practices through design reviews, code reviews, and by setting a high standard for quality and operational excellence.
• Act as a hands-on leader, guiding the team through complex technical challenges and contributing to the codebase where necessary.

Success Measures

Within the first three months, you will have:

• Fully ramped up on our architecture, business domain, and team processes.
• Establish yourself as the technical leader within the team, actively driving technical discussions, design reviews, and planning for the product roadmap.
• Begin mentoring team members and building strong collaborative relationships with your product counterparts.

Within six months, you will have:

• Successfully led the team to deliver a major feature or product release.
• Made significant contributions to the architectural roadmap and started influencing the technical direction of adjacent teams.
• Established a clear rhythm of execution and a high-performing culture within your team.

Within 12 months, you will have:

• Become recognized as the go-to technical expert for the data migration domain at MongoDB.
• Delivered large-scale features across the entire tech stack that have a measurable impact on our customers and business.
• Played a crucial role in recruiting, hiring, and growing the engineering team.

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market—helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers—including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups—relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Position Purpose:

• Serve as a Senior Full Stack Developer responsible for designing and delivering high-quality features
• Hands-on development role while contributing to and influencing the overall technical direction of the product.
• Take ownership of feature technical design across the full stack, including cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor and support junior engineers, fostering best practices and continuous improvement within the team.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Design and develop product software using appropriate modelling techniques, adhering to agreed design standards, patterns, and methodologies. Balance complexity, business requirements, cost, and timelines to achieve optimal outcomes for customers and the business.
• Create and communicate multiple architectural and design views to address stakeholder concerns and ensure alignment with both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Develop models and prototypes to validate proposed designs, secure stakeholder approval, and enable effective implementation.
• Recommend and refine designs that consider current and target environments, performance, security, and integration with existing systems. Conduct design reviews, providing constructive feedback to improve quality across the team.
• Analyse and document the technical impact of new product features and architectural enhancements, including estimating effort and identifying dependencies.
• Contribute to the selection of appropriate software development approaches to meet quality standards, delivery timelines, and risk management objectives.
• Apply agreed development standards, tools, and best practices to deliver robust, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrated expertise in software design patterns and coding best practices
• AI Assisted Development – tools like GitHub Copilot to write, review, debug code
• Prompt Engineering
• Experience in SaaS-based full stack development, with proficiency in Java and modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Spring (or similar backend frameworks).
• Experience working with frontend frameworks such as Angular or React.
• Proven experience designing and implementing infrastructure-as-code on AWS, including services such as CloudFormation, CDK, load balancers, EC2, S3, Lambda, and container-based runtime environments.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and experience with tools such as GitHub, CircleCI, CodePipeline, or Bamboo.
• Strong problem-solving and system design capabilities.
• Ability to mentor, coach, and effectively share knowledge within the team.
• Proven track record of proactive contribution across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). 

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Previous experience with monolithic to microservices App migration
• Experience with NoSQL/Document/Vector databases
• Performance optimizations with data caching and related designs
• Have worked in Data pipelines/ETL
• Application monitoring with CloudWatch, New Relic
• RAG Pipeline Design

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Computer Science degree or equivalent academic qualification

Company Overview

At Zuora, we do Modern Business. We’re helping people subscribe to new ways of doing business that are better for people, companies and ultimately the planet. It’s an approach resulting from the shift to the Subscription Economy that puts customers first by building recurring relationships instead of one-time product sales and focuses on sustainable growth. Through our leading expertise and multi-product suite, we are transforming all industries and working with the world’s most innovative companies to monetize new business models, nurture subscriber relationships and optimize their digital experiences.

The Team & Role

Zuora’s Application Security & Security Engineering team partners closely with engineering to embed security into the software development lifecycle through scalable tools, processes, and culture.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll work hands-on with developers and architects to drive secure design, build security automation, and support critical projects across our cloud-native platform. This role is part of our growing presence in Sydney and offers the opportunity to shape and scale security practices globally.

This is a hybrid position, so you'll work both remotely and in the office.

Our Tech Stack: Java, Spring, Rest API, Microservices, Kafka, Spark, NodeJS, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, AngularJS 

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with teams across a global organization to support the adoption and implementation of secure software development practices and tooling.
• Contribute hands-on to critical engineering and tooling projects, working closely with technical leads and product owners to ensure security is a key part of successful project outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions to ensure security is embedded by design.
• Design and develop reusable, flexible security components and APIs to support scalable, secure application development across the company.
• Define and promote best practices to ensure software security without compromising functionality, usability, reliability, or availability.
• Participate in design and code reviews, providing actionable security recommendations as needed.
• Collaborate with project teams to design and prototype secure solutions, validating key assumptions and security objectives.
• Evaluate, implement, and support a range of security tools to improve visibility and reduce risk.
• Build strong relationships and communicate effectively with stakeholders throughout the SDLC, including Product, Engineering, and Operations teams.

Your experience

• 8+ years of experience in application security, software development, or a related engineering role.
• Strong understanding of secure software development practices, including experience working with developers to embed security into the SDLC.
• Hands-on experience conducting security design reviews, threat modeling, and code reviews for web and cloud-based applications.
• Familiarity with common application vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10) and experience in identifying and remediating them.
• Experience working with security tools such as SAST, DAST, SCA, and container security scanners.
• Ability to communicate security concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with AWS security best practices and securing cloud-native architectures.
• Background in DevSecOps or building security automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Bug Bounty triage or managing responsible disclosure programs.
• Experience with regulatory frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, or GDPR) as they relate to product security.
• Programming or scripting skills (e.g., Python, JavaScript, or Go) to build internal tools or automation.

#ZEOLife at Zuora

As an industry pioneer, our work is constantly evolving and challenging us in new ways that require us to think differently, iterate often and learn constantly—it’s exciting. Our people, whom we refer to as “ZEOs" are empowered to take on a mindset of ownership and make a bigger impact here. Our teams collaborate deeply, exchange different ideas openly and together we’re making what’s next possible for our customers, community and the world. 

As part of our commitment to building an inclusive, high-performance culture where ZEOs feel inspired, connected and valued, we support ZEOs with:

• Competitive compensation, variable bonus and performance reward opportunities, and retirement programs
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Generous, flexible time off 
• Paid holidays, “wellness” days and company wide end of year break
• Attractive parental leave 
• Learning & Development stipend
• Opportunities to volunteer and give back, including charitable donation match
• Free resources and support for your mental wellbeing  

Specific benefits offerings may vary by country and can be viewed in more detail during your interview process.

Location & Work Arrangements

Organizations and teams at Zuora are empowered to design efficient and flexible ways of working, being intentional about scheduling, communication, and collaboration strategies that help us achieve our best results. In our dynamic, globally distributed company, this means balancing flexibility and responsibility — flexibility to live our lives to the fullest, and responsibility to each other, to our customers, and to our shareholders. For most roles, we offer the flexibility to work both remotely and at Zuora offices.

Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace

Think, be and do you! At Zuora, different perspectives, experiences and contributions matter. Everyone counts. Zuora is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating an inclusive environment for all.

Zuora does not discriminate on the basis of, and considers individuals seeking employment with Zuora without regards to, race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us by sending an email to assistance(at)zuora.com.

Position Purpose:

• Serve as a Junior Full Stack Developer responsible for designing and delivering high-quality features
• Operate in a hands-on development role
• Take end-to-end ownership of feature technical design across the full stack

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop product software features using appropriate modelling techniques, adhering to agreed design standards, patterns, and methodologies. Balance complexity, business requirements, cost, and timelines to achieve optimal outcomes for customers and the business.
• Apply agreed development standards, tools, and best practices to deliver robust, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrated knowledge in software design patterns and coding best practices, with the ability to apply them effectively in real-world scenarios.
• Good experience in SaaS-based full stack development, with proficiency in Java and modern JavaScript frameworks.
• AI Assisted Development – use of tools like GitHub Copilot to write, review and debug code.
• Basic Prompt Engineering
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts
• Hands-on experience with Spring (or similar backend frameworks).
• Experience working with frontend frameworks such as Angular or React.
• Exposure to Cloud-based infrastructure and container-based runtime environments.
• Understanding of CI/CD principles and experience with tools such as GitHub, CircleCI, CodePipeline, or Bamboo.
• Strong problem-solving and good system design capabilities.
• Excellent communication skills

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience with NoSQL/Document/Vector databases
• Performance optimizations with data caching and related designs
• Application monitoring with CloudWatch, New Relic
• RAG fundamentals and AI tool workflow

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Computer Science degree or equivalent academic qualification

Company Overview

At Zuora, we do Modern Business. We’re helping people subscribe to new ways of doing business that are better for people, companies and ultimately the planet. It’s an approach resulting from the shift to the Subscription Economy that puts customers first by building recurring relationships instead of one-time product sales and focuses on sustainable growth. Through our leading expertise and multi-product suite, we are transforming all industries and working with the world’s most innovative companies to monetize new business models, nurture subscriber relationships and optimize their digital experiences.

The Team & Role

Zuora’s Application Security & Security Engineering team partners closely with engineering to embed security into the software development lifecycle through scalable tools, processes, and culture.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll work hands-on with developers and architects to drive secure design, build security automation, and support critical projects across our cloud-native platform. This role is part of our growing presence in Sydney and offers the opportunity to shape and scale security practices globally.

This is a hybrid position, so you'll work both remotely and in the office.

Our Tech Stack: Java, Spring, Rest API, Microservices, Kafka, Spark, NodeJS, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, AngularJS 

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with teams across a global organization to support the adoption and implementation of secure software development practices and tooling.
• Contribute hands-on to critical engineering and tooling projects, working closely with technical leads and product owners to ensure security is a key part of successful project outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions to ensure security is embedded by design.
• Design and develop reusable, flexible security components and APIs to support scalable, secure application development across the company.
• Define and promote best practices to ensure software security without compromising functionality, usability, reliability, or availability.
• Participate in design and code reviews, providing actionable security recommendations as needed.
• Collaborate with project teams to design and prototype secure solutions, validating key assumptions and security objectives.
• Evaluate, implement, and support a range of security tools to improve visibility and reduce risk.
• Build strong relationships and communicate effectively with stakeholders throughout the SDLC, including Product, Engineering, and Operations teams.

Your experience

• 8+ years of experience in application security, software development, or a related engineering role.
• Strong understanding of secure software development practices, including experience working with developers to embed security into the SDLC.
• Hands-on experience conducting security design reviews, threat modeling, and code reviews for web and cloud-based applications.
• Familiarity with common application vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10) and experience in identifying and remediating them.
• Experience working with security tools such as SAST, DAST, SCA, and container security scanners.
• Ability to communicate security concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with AWS security best practices and securing cloud-native architectures.
• Background in DevSecOps or building security automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Bug Bounty triage or managing responsible disclosure programs.
• Experience with regulatory frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, or GDPR) as they relate to product security.
• Programming or scripting skills (e.g., Python, JavaScript, or Go) to build internal tools or automation.

Note: Australia PR is a must. 

#ZEOLife at Zuora

As an industry pioneer, our work is constantly evolving and challenging us in new ways that require us to think differently, iterate often and learn constantly—it’s exciting. Our people, whom we refer to as “ZEOs" are empowered to take on a mindset of ownership and make a bigger impact here. Our teams collaborate deeply, exchange different ideas openly and together we’re making what’s next possible for our customers, community and the world. 

As part of our commitment to building an inclusive, high-performance culture where ZEOs feel inspired, connected and valued, we support ZEOs with:

• Competitive compensation, variable bonus and performance reward opportunities, and retirement programs
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Generous, flexible time off 
• Paid holidays, “wellness” days and company wide end of year break
• Attractive parental leave 
• Learning & Development stipend
• Opportunities to volunteer and give back, including charitable donation match
• Free resources and support for your mental wellbeing  

Specific benefits offerings may vary by country and can be viewed in more detail during your interview process.

Location & Work Arrangements

Organizations and teams at Zuora are empowered to design efficient and flexible ways of working, being intentional about scheduling, communication, and collaboration strategies that help us achieve our best results. In our dynamic, globally distributed company, this means balancing flexibility and responsibility — flexibility to live our lives to the fullest, and responsibility to each other, to our customers, and to our shareholders. For most roles, we offer the flexibility to work both remotely and at Zuora offices.

Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace

Think, be and do you! At Zuora, different perspectives, experiences and contributions matter. Everyone counts. Zuora is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating an inclusive environment for all.

Zuora does not discriminate on the basis of, and considers individuals seeking employment with Zuora without regards to, race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us by sending an email to assistance(at)zuora.com.