Senior / Lead Software Engineer — Backend & Platform

Salary: $120,000 – $150,000 per year

Own the platform behind thousands of live displays

Precision builds and operates digital display systems used in hospitality venues across

Australia.

Behind every display is a distributed software platform responsible for getting the right content

to the right screen, keeping devices in sync, reacting to live events, and continuing to operate

when a venue's internet connection inevitably becomes unreliable.

We're looking for a Senior or Lead Software Engineer to take technical ownership of that

platform.

You'll work across the APIs, services, data model, messaging infrastructure and content delivery

systems that connect our cloud platform to a growing fleet of physical devices.

This is a startup, but not a greenfield idea. The product exists, customers use it every day, and

the platform is growing. We're now looking for an experienced engineer to help us shape the

architecture and engineering practices required for the next stage.

About Precision

Precision Signs is a 50-year-old Australian manufacturer based in Wagga Wagga, with more

than 30 staff designing, building and supporting digital display and gaming products for venues

nationwide.

We're large enough to have established products, customers and revenue, but small enough

that good engineers have a genuine influence over how things are built.

Our software team works closely with the hardware, production and creative teams building the

physical products our software runs on. You won't be several organisational layers removed

from the thing you're building.

What you'll work on

Own and evolve the backend architecture

Our platform is primarily built with C#/.NET, ASP.NET Core, PostgreSQL and AWS

You'll take a leading role in how our services, APIs and data model evolve, making pragmatic

architectural decisions as the platform scales.

Build distributed content-delivery systems

Design the systems responsible for distributing media, layouts, configuration and commands

across a large fleet of remotely deployed displays.

That means solving problems around:

• Unreliable and intermittent networks

• Retries, acknowledgements and idempotency

• Device state and synchronisation

• Caching and offline operation

• Rollout and version management

• Observability across remote devices

Build real-time and event-driven systems

We integrate with live data sources where an event may need to propagate through our

platform and appear across hundreds of displays within seconds.

You'll work with message queues, asynchronous processing and event-driven architecture to

make those systems fast, reliable and understandable.

Raise the engineering standard

Help establish consistent approaches to:

• System and service architecture

• Automated testing

• Code review

• Observability and monitoring

• CI/CD

• Deployment

• Documentation

• Incident handling

We're not looking for process for process's sake. The goal is to make it easier for engineers to

build, deploy and operate reliable software.

Help grow the engineering team

You'll work closely with the existing development team through design discussions, code

reviews, pairing and technical mentoring.

For candidates joining at Lead level, you'll also play a major role in technical planning, hiring

and growing the software team over the next few years.

Work close to the decisions

You'll work directly with the people responsible for product and technical direction.

If you think something should be built differently, you'll be able to make the case and influence

the decision.

What we're looking for

You don't need to match every bullet, but you'll probably have most of the following:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, primarily building backend or

• platform systems

• Strong experience with C# and .NET

• Production experience with ASP.NET Core and REST APIs

• Strong relational database fundamentals; we use PostgreSQL

• Experience designing and operating distributed or event-driven systems

• Practical knowledge of message queues, asynchronous processing, retries, idempotency

• and eventual consistency

• Experience with AWS or another major cloud platform

• Experience operating production systems, including logging, monitoring, alerting and

• diagnosing failures

• A track record of making meaningful architectural decisions and understanding their tradeoffs

• The ability to balance good engineering with actually shipping products

• Strong communication skills across both technical and non-technical teams

For a Lead appointment, we'd additionally expect experience providing technical direction

across a team and mentoring senior and mid-level engineers.

Useful, but not required

Our products cross software, hardware and graphics, so you may also encounter:

• Unity

• React and TypeScript

• RabbitMQ or similar messaging systems

• Graphics programming and shaders

• Image and video processing

• Electron

• Embedded systems

• AV systems

• Device or fleet management

• Digital signage

• Gaming systems

We'd much rather hire someone with exceptional backend and distributed-systems

fundamentals than someone who happens to recognise every technology on that list.

Why this role is interesting

Real architectural ownership

You'll have meaningful authority over the direction of the platform rather than simply

implementing architecture decided somewhere else.

Software meets the physical world

The systems you build ultimately control real hardware installed in real venues across Australia.

Interesting distributed-systems problems

Remote devices, unreliable networks, real-time events, fleet management, content distribution

and offline operation create engineering problems that are very different from another CRUD

SaaS application.

A small engineering team with room to shape it

We're investing further in software and want the person in this role to help define how the

engineering function develops.

An established Australian company

Precision has been operating for more than 50 years, with established customers, products and

manufacturing capability behind the software.

A different lifestyle

If you're considering relocating from Sydney, Melbourne or Canberra, Wagga Wagga offers

considerably shorter commutes and lower housing costs while still supporting a strong

professional career.

How to apply

Please send one or more of the following:

• Your CV

• Your GitHub or portfolio

• A short description of an interesting system you've built, the decisions you made, and what you'd do differently today

The interview process

Our process is straight forward:

1. Initial conversation

A short call to talk about the role, what you're looking for and whether there's a mutual fit.

2. Technical conversation

A discussion with our engineering team about systems you've built, architecture and how

you approach engineering problems.

3. Final conversation

Meet the people you'll work with and talk through the role, company and offer