Software Engineer - API

Location:

• This position is based in our Sydney office. The candidate is required to attend the office a minimum of 3 days per week and may voluntarily elect to work either remotely or from the Sydney office for the remaining 2 days of the week.

Key Responsibilities

• Please note that these duties and responsibilities are a guideline and by no means comprehensive. Additional tasks may be added from time to time at the discretion of your Manager / Director.
• Deliver user stories and small features end-to-end, from design through to release, with
• high quality and minimal rework
• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable REST APIs across the Nuix platform,
• including request validation, consistent response contracts, versioning and backwards
• compatibility
• Implement and maintain authentication and authorisation flows, including API key
• issuance and exchange, token-based authentication and scope-based access control
• Keep API documentation current and usable, including OpenAPI / Swagger definitions
• and developer-facing guides
• Write meaningful unit and integration tests, and hold the team's coverage and quality
• gates
• Investigate and fix build and test failures in the CI/CD pipeline, and keep deployment
• paths healthy across cloud and local deployment environments
• Apply secure coding practices and act on findings from static analysis and dependency
• scanning tooling
• Break work into small, releasable increments so the team can deliver early and deliver
• often
• Participate in planning, backlog grooming and technical design discussions across
• multiple products, providing reasonable estimates and flagging risk early
• Collaborate with architects, QA, DevOps and other product teams to ensure consistency,
• maximise code reuse and achieve seamless integration between projects
• Share knowledge through documentation, demos and enablement material, and support
• the onboarding of newer team members
• Perform code reviews with teaching intent, explaining the why and not only the what
• Adopt AI coding assistants effectively to accelerate ramp-up in unfamiliar areas and
• improve design exploration, and share what works with the team
• Provide maintenance support as scheduled during business hours

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Degree in a relevant field such as computer science / engineering, software engineering, machine learning, mathematics or a related quantitative discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 3-5 years of relevant programming experience
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining production REST APIs in a service or microservice architecture
• Working proficiency in Java, with willingness to work across the stack. Exposure to
• Python or TypeScript is welcome
• Practical understanding of identity and access management concepts such as OAuth2 /
• OIDC, JWT and API keys. Experience with Keycloak or a comparable identity provider is an advantage
• Solid grasp of testing practices, version control and CI/CD fundamentals, for example Jenkins or an equivalent pipeline tool
• Familiarity with containerised deployment and infrastructure as code, for example Docker, Kubernetes, Helm or Crossplane, and with API gateways such as Traefik
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems on a daily basis
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment with a sense of urgency and attention to detail
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively across multiple teams and multiple time-zones
• Familiar with current industry trends and understanding of development methodologies and standards
• Interest in AI and agentic capability, for example MCP servers, semantic search, retrieval or document intelligence, is a strong plus
• Willingness to assist in the interview process and to mentor junior team members

About NUIX

As we expand our global team and extend our skills and expertise, we are unified as one Nuix team guided by our shared values. Nuix Vision

• Finding Truth in a Digital World.

Nuix Mission Statement

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**Nuix is an Equal Opportunity Employer**