Staff Software Engineer
About The Role
Dispensed is building the infrastructure that lets patients across Australia, New Zealand, and the UK access healthcare that has historically been hard to reach, and the Staff Software Engineer role sits at the centre of that work. At this level, you will set the technical direction for a meaningful slice of the platform, making architectural decisions that will shape how the product scales and how quickly teams can ship. This is not a role where you inherit a fixed system and maintain it; the platform is still being shaped, and you will have a genuine hand in defining what it becomes. If you care about building software that has a direct effect on patient outcomes, and you want the scope and trust to lead that work without needing approval on every trade-off, this role is worth a serious look.
What You Will Do
- Define and drive the technical architecture across your domain, including decisions on data design, service boundaries, and third-party integrations that will be lived with for years.
- Identify systemic risks in the platform before they become production problems, then lead the work to resolve them, whether that means proposing a re-architecture, building shared tooling, or setting a new standard for how teams approach a problem.
- Lead complex, cross-team initiatives from ambiguous brief to shipped product, creating clarity on approach, sequencing, and dependencies so that multiple engineers can move in parallel without losing coherence.
- Write technical design documents that drive alignment across teams and bring product managers and senior stakeholders into consequential decisions without requiring them to understand every implementation detail.
- Actively coach senior engineers on what ownership, quality, and delivery look like at the next level, including honest conversations about where they need to grow.
- Bring a commercial lens to technical decisions, weighing infrastructure cost, regulatory exposure, and time-to-market alongside correctness and elegance.
- Represent engineering as a business partner in cross-functional discussions, raising systemic issues clearly and pushing conversations toward resolution rather than leaving problems to accumulate.
What You’ll Need
Required:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including senior/staff-level ownership.
- Proven experience defining and evolving architecture across systems or teams.
- Strong full-stack background (Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar).
- Experience designing and scaling distributed systems, APIs, and integrations.
- Solid cloud and deployment experience (AWS, Vercel, or similar).
- Track record of leading cross-team initiatives and driving technical alignment.
- Strong engineering judgment balancing quality, speed, and business impact.
- Excellent communication skills, including during technical design writing.
Highly Valued:
- Experience setting technical direction or standards across teams.
- Background in regulated environments (e.g. healthcare, fintech).
- Experience with platform modernisation (migrations, consolidation).
- Understanding of security, patient data privacy, or healthcare systems.
What We Offer
- Work From Anywhere in Australia.
- A competitive salary and awesome benefits package.
- A supportive and positive work environment.
- Opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Opportunity to transform lives through alternative medicine.