Software Engineer

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Humanforce is seeking a Software Engineer in Melbourne for a full-time hybrid role to help build a customer facing product. You’ll contribute to backend service design and data modelling in a modular .NET stack, with Postgres, DynamoDB and an internal SNS event bus, plus domain services where correctness matters, and you’ll use AI tooling as an accelerant, not a shortcut. Collaboration with Product Managers and cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise-ready solutions is essential. The role demands 3+ years experience, C#/.NET, Postgres and DynamoDB, JavaScript frameworks, and AWS, plus a comfort with cloud-based multi-tenant architectures. To apply, tailor your resume to highlight backend architecture and data models, show customer impact, and demonstrate alignment with our values and flexible hybrid culture.

Who are we?  

Humanforce’s vision is to make work easier and life better for frontline and flexible workforces. 

Humanforce provides the market leading, best-in-one human capital management (HCM) suite for frontline and flexible workforces - without compromise. Our employee centred, intelligent and compliant HCM suite is highly integrated and composable, and consists of Workforce Management (WFM), HR, Talent, Payroll, and Wellbeing.  

Humanforce has built strong foundations since its founding in 2002. We help over 2300 customers and almost 1 million employees under management in 30+ countries, across a wide range of industries, including aged, child and health care; education; hospitality; retail; local government and more. Today, we have offices across Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, North America and the Philippines.

Customers choose Humanforce because we enable them to deliver an exceptional employee experience, build a compelling employee value proposition, and connect the flow of the world’s talent with the growth, productivity and efficiency objectives of frontline and flexible workforces. 

Who you are

You will be a key contributing member of our Engineering team, working on a new customer facing product. You'll play a pivotal role in backend service design and development, data modelling and prototype implementation.

This role has a direct business and customer impact, ensuring every customer can seamlessly access a new solution which will change their ways of working. You'll focus on maintaining code quality across the team, and unblock challenges.  

What you will do

• Building and extending a modular monolith, a .NET-based backend with clean internal product boundaries and a multi-tenant data model
• Working with Postgres, DynamoDB, and an internal SNS event bus as the primary data and messaging infrastructure
• Designing and implementing domain services (shift state machines, audit outbox, eligibility pipelines) where correctness and causal ordering matter
• Using AI tooling actively: not as a shortcut, but as a genuine accelerant for code generation, design exploration, and documentation
• Contributing to architecture decisions and flagging when something does not add up
• Collaborate with teammates to design and implement architectural approaches that integrate our product suite in enterprise environments. 
• Contribute ideas for process improvements and technical innovation that enhance how we work. 
• Partner with Product Managers to deeply understand requirements and deliver solutions that align with the product strategy. 

 What you’ll need

• 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Technical experience with C#, .Net, Postgres, DynamoDB
• JavaScript, React or Angular
• AWS or similar cloud technologies.
• AI Fluency, genuine comfort using AI tooling as part of how you work: generating code, stress-testing designs, accelerating research, writing documentation. Engineers who treat it as a core part of their workflow will thrive.
• Ability to collaborate effectively and communicate clearly within a diverse, cross-functional team.  

 Some ‘nice to haves’

• Domain knowledge of HR, Workforce Management, scheduling or payroll will be helpful but not required.

Our values   

• We are bold   
• We are all in   
• We are customer obsessed   
• We do what we say   
• We are good humans   

Our approach to flexibility   

We are passionate about people making their own decisions about where and when they work. Our hybrid model of minimum two days a week of in office moments supports flexibility tailored to individual and team needs, empowering people to achieve their career and personal goals. 

Benefits  

• A truly flexible workplace through our Flex@HF approach 
• The opportunity to be part of a fast-growing global tech company 
• A focus on learning and development through Humanforce HR 
• A generous talent referral program – know great people, be rewarded 
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers, 4 weeks’ for secondary 
• 4 extra days leave to focus on your wellbeing 
• Contemporary and practical Employee Assistance Program  
• A cool reward and recognition program – shout to your colleagues and earn points to spend 
• Access to our own financial wellbeing platform Thrive – including earned wage access, tools to budget and save, perks and cashback across 100s of Australian retailers 
• Fun, collaborative culture with passionate people 
• A workplace where you can genuinely improve the world of work!  

We are a diverse and dispersed organisation and are actively looking to grow our team with individuals from all diverse backgrounds. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, ages, genders, neurodiversity, religions, sexual orientations, and experiences to apply.