Our Story 🚀Since launching in 2019, Safewill has become one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Australia. Each year we help tens of thousands of Australians to think about their end-of-life plans and are empowering people to navigate some of the most difficult - and meaningful - moments of their life.

Backed by investors like King River Capital, Westpac’s Reinventure Fund, Carthona Capital and Flying Fox Ventures, we’re building a digital ecosystem that makes estate planning more affordable, more personalised, and more relevant for modern Australians.

Your Story with Us 🤩Driving innovation at the heart of our mission, we seek a talented Senior Software Engineer to enhance our software solutions and directly impact our products' success and reliability. With your strategic influence and expertise, you'll develop applications that seamlessly align with our strategic goals, shaping the technological foundation that supports our vision and delivers exceptional value to customers and stakeholders.

Your Impact 🙌With senior-level experience, you'll strategically influence our software design and development, transforming business requirements into innovative solutions. You'll participate in the design, development, and testing of critical applications, ensuring quality, reliability, scalability, and efficiency. Additionally, you'll mentor other engineers, promote continuous improvement, elevate team performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure project success.

Your Skills 💡Essential:

• Proficiency in modern scripting languages and frameworks for web application development (we use Nuxt/Vue.js and Nest.js with TypeScript).
• Familiarity with web services (e.g. GraphQL, REST API, WebSockets).
• Knowledge of data management technologies (SQL, NoSQL, ETL processes).
• Experience with container technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure - we use GCP).
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication skills for conveying complex technical ideas.
• Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.
  
  

Preferred:

• Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, or Python (we use TypeScript)
• Working knowledge of modern SDLCs.
• Expertise in enterprise software architecture and design.
• Experience in collaboration and integration tools (Atlassian suite, GitHub workflows, etc.).
• Proven experience with Agile or Scrum methodologies.
• Experience in engineering processes including coding standards, technical documentation standards, QA processes, build, and configuration management and ensuring that such practices and other official business processes are followed.
  
  

Why Safewill? 🤝

Our Engineering Culture

• Engineers are involved early - shaping solutions, not just implementing them. You’ll understand the “why”, decide the “how”, and see it through in production
• Work stays with the people who build it. Engineers own it end-to-end; from design through to production and iteration, with tight feedback loops
• Regularly we run Willpower Week, a dedicated time driven by engineers to improve developer experience, tackle tech debt, and fix the things that have been getting in your way.
• Quarterly AI hackathons and team outings to step outside the sprint to build and test new ideas, then connect and recharge together.
• Feedback is part of the everyday; open, direct, and ego-free, all aimed at helping the team continuously improve.
• Weekly opportunities to learn and share, from team demos to focused sessions on new technologies, with space to showcase what you’ve been building.
  
  

We live by our SAFE values:

• Speed: We move quickly with purpose
• All-in: We win as a team
• Find the Impact: We focus on what matters
• Elevate: We raise the bar, every day
  
  

TL;DR We’re rewriting how Australians deal with death by making estate planning simple, accessible and modern through great technology. At Safewill, you’ll grow faster because you’re closer to the action. You’ll see how strategy becomes execution, how data shapes decisions, and how a small team builds something that genuinely changes lives.