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CORTO

Senior Software Engineer – Node, AWS, AI

CORTO

. Rebuild a consumer-facing AI/LegalTech product from the ground up .

Posted 11/2/2026full-timeSydney • AustraliaSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive experience in building and shipping production software, with a strong focus on backend development using Node.js and TypeScript. Proficient in AWS infrastructure management, CI/CD pipeline design, and observability practices to ensure robust and secure AI/LegalTech product delivery.

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Node.js Backend DevelopmentAWS Infrastructure ManagementCI/CD Pipeline DesignData Modelling SkillsLLM Infrastructure Experience

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Hard Skills
Node.jsTypeScriptAWS LambdaAWS ECSAWS RDSAWS DynamoDBAWS SQSInfrastructure-as-CodeCI/CD Pipeline DesignData Modelling
Soft Skills
CollaborationKnowledge SharingIncident Response
Tools & Technologies
CDKGitHub ActionsGitLab CIDatadogGrafanaPrometheusCloudWatch
Certifications & Qualifications
CS DegreeEngineering Degree
Industry Keywords
AILegalTechSOC 2Multi-Region Cloud DeploymentsRegulated Industry Experience

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudDynamoDBGrafanaJavaScriptNode.jsPostgresPrometheusReactTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Rebuild a consumer-facing AI/LegalTech product from the ground up
  • Design and ship backend services in TypeScript/Node.js, including APIs, data models, business logic, and LLM integrations
  • Design schemas for real users and changing requirements
  • Own meaningful product slices end-to-end
  • Own AWS infrastructure including Lambda, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, VPC, and IAM using CDK
  • Improve CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, deploying, and rolling back
  • Own AI infrastructure for LLM features, including model access, Langfuse tracing, token/cost/latency monitoring, evaluation pipelines, rate limits, retries, and timeouts
  • Build observability into the delivery pipeline, including alert design and SLI/SLO definition
  • Participate in incident response
  • Support repeatable regional deployments as Settify expands
  • Secure customer data through IAM, secrets, encryption, and backups
  • Work toward SOC 2
  • Collaborate with a small engineering team of five Sydney-based and three international engineers
  • Contribute to technical direction and share knowledge

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 8+ years building and shipping production software
  • Deep proficiency in Node.js on the backend
  • Good working experience in TypeScript
  • Strong AWS experience, including Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, VPC, and IAM
  • Infrastructure-as-code experience with CDK or Terraform at depth
  • CI/CD pipeline design experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar
  • Experience with automated testing, deployments, and rollbacks
  • Observability experience with Datadog, Grafana/Prometheus, or CloudWatch
  • Alert design experience
  • Strong data modelling skills
  • Database operations experience with Postgres, DynamoDB, or similar, including schema design, indexing, and migrations
  • Hands-on LLM infrastructure experience, including API integration, rate limits, retries, timeouts, and cost/latency monitoring
  • A CS or engineering degree, or equivalent depth from building things
  • Light React familiarity
  • Ability to work in a hybrid Sydney-based role, with 3 days in the Barangaroo office and 2 days working from home
  • Preferred: multi-region cloud deployments, regulated-industry experience, zero-to-one early-stage experience, LLM observability tooling, and security-aware development

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Flexible, hybrid working
  • 2 additional paid wellbeing days every year
  • Free gym membership
  • Corporate dental plan
  • Weekly massages in the office
  • Catered lunch and breakfast every week
  • Fully stocked kitchen
  • Access to LEAP Home program to support buying a primary residence
  • Celebrations, socials, sports teams, and access to sailing and yacht events
  • Career growth opportunities
  • Trust and autonomy
  • Work on large and complex projects
  • Flexible arrangements