Senior Software Engineer (AI & Agentic Engineering)

Job description

We’re building a better way for retailers to grow customers, not just reward them.

At Slyp, our end-to-end platform combines loyalty, payments and transaction intelligence to help retailers understand how their customers shop, identify where growth exists and turn those insights into automated action with measurable results.

Through Go Rewards, our consumer app and merchant loyalty platform, we connect shoppers with personalised offers and rewards while giving retailers deeper insights into their customers.

Our technology has been used across Australian retail by brands including Kmart, Chemist Warehouse, JD Sports, Country Road Group, Harris Farm, Supabarn and SPAR. We’ve processed billions of transactions and analysed over 15 billion products sold, giving us a unique view of customer, category, basket and promotional behaviour.

Now we’re building on that foundation to move loyalty beyond points and discounts. Using AI, payments and SKU-level data, we’re helping retailers identify each customer’s growth potential, personalise the right action and measure whether it actually changed behaviour.

The Role

We're looking for an exceptional, hands-on Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about building great software and exploring what's possible with AI.

You'll design and ship production software across our loyalty and rewards platforms, develop new AI-powered product capabilities, and help accelerate our engineering team's adoption of agentic development workflows.

This is first and foremost a software engineering role. You'll work closely with our CTO and experienced engineers, taking ownership of complex technical challenges while bringing practical experience with AI coding agents, automation and modern development practices.

We're looking for someone who leads by building: experimenting with new approaches, demonstrating what works and helping turn successful ideas into repeatable engineering practices. You'll have a genuine opportunity to influence how we build software as we evolve our AI-native product development.

This is a full-time, hybrid role based in Sydney, with direct access to leadership and significant technical ownership.

Job requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in TypeScript/Node.js, distributed systems and full-stack product development with React and React Native.
• Hands-on experience building and operating scalable services on AWS, with a solid understanding of cloud architecture, databases, CI/CD and observability (EKS, Lambda, Postgres, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, API Gateway).
• Significant hands-on experience with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or equivalent, beyond basic AI-assisted code generation.
• Experience designing or improving agentic engineering workflows, including reusable tooling, harnesses, automation or development standards.
• Proven ability to take ownership of complex engineering problems, make pragmatic architectural decisions and deliver high-quality production software.
• A collaborative, experimental mindset, with the ability to influence experienced engineers through pairing, technical leadership and sharing practical approaches.
• Experience in a startup or scaleup environment, balancing engineering quality with delivery speed.