Staff Software Engineer

Lyrebird Health

. Set technical direction across core parts of the platform and make architecture decisions used by other teams .

Posted 11/9/2026full-timeMelbourne • AustraliaLeadWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in setting technical direction for AI systems, ensuring high standards in architecture and engineering practices. Capable of influencing cross-functional teams and developing engineers to make informed technical decisions in complex production environments.

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Technical Direction SettingAI-Powered Systems DevelopmentReal-Time Pipeline ImplementationEngineering Standards ImprovementHealthcare Software Experience

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Hard Skills

Architecture DecisionsComplex Production SystemsReal-Time Audio SystemsSpeech SystemsStreaming SystemsAI System EvaluationTrade-Off AnalysisProblem Solving

Soft Skills

Good JudgmentInfluencing SkillsComfort with Ambiguity

Tools & Technologies

TypeScriptAWS

Industry Keywords

HealthcareClinical SoftwareSafety-Critical Environments

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set technical direction across core parts of the platform and make architecture decisions used by other teams
Identify and address scaling limits, future-market design issues, and other problems before they are formally scoped
Take on difficult implementations, including real-time pipelines and complex production issues
Shape how AI systems are built, evaluated, and shipped so clinicians can trust the results
Challenge Product, Clinical, and engineering leadership on priorities and rationale
Raise engineering standards through design reviews, standards, and example
Develop senior engineers so they can make high-level technical decisions
Build real-time AI systems supporting clinical consultations
Develop systems that transform clinical conversations into notes and automate clinical administration

Requirements

What you’ll need

Track record of setting technical direction for complex production systems and seeing it through
Experience building or running AI-powered systems in production, including evaluating whether they are working
Influence beyond one's own team, demonstrated through adopted decisions and developing engineers
Good judgment balancing speed, quality, and risk, with ability to explain trade-offs to non-engineers
Comfort with ambiguity and ability to turn unclear problems into actionable plans
Experience in healthcare, clinical software, or other safety-critical environments (nice to have)
Familiarity with TypeScript and AWS (nice to have)
Experience with real-time audio, speech, or streaming systems (nice to have)
Experience at an early-stage company during fast growth (nice to have)
Right to work in Australia on an ongoing basis without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible and supportive workplace where everyone can feel safe and thrive
Opportunity to work on meaningful clinical AI that improves clinician time, information quality, and patient care
Strong encouragement for applicants from underrepresented backgrounds in tech