Staff Engineer
About Weel
Weel (Previously Divipay) is Australia's leading spend management solution, providing software to help businesses streamline and control company-wide spending.
As we work towards becoming the epicentre for how every business manages and spends money, we keep our colleagues and customers at the forefront of every decision. We believe in a culture of collective accountability, where every team member's contribution is valued as the key to our success.
We've hit some major milestones, including a successful $20m Series A raise. Our funding is being put to good use, helping us to grow and strengthen our product offering, and most importantly, invest in a team of exceptionally talented people.
A number of notable highlights and accolades we're proud to include:
- Joining forces with payment providers, Visa and Nium, to bring even more value to our customers.
- The successful launch of our sophisticated new brand that positions us for future growth beyond Australia
- Listed on the Australian Financial Review - Most Innovative Companies
- Winning 'Partnership of the Year' alongside Slyp at the 2022 Finnies
- Shortlisted in the Best Small Business App category for the Xero Australia FY23 Awards
- Welcomed over 1,000 attendees at our inaugural Virtual CFO Summit in 2022.
It's hard to put into words what makes our culture at Weel so special. But one thing's for sure - we'll always give you the space to explore your passions and have some fun along the way.
Your Impact
As a Staff Engineer at Weel, you will be a key technical contributor working across our full stack to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that support the needs of modern finance teams.
This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who wants to stay hands-on in software engineering, shape technical direction, and influence architectural decisions without direct people management responsibilities.
You will work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to solve meaningful problems, deliver new product capabilities, mentor through code and design reviews, and raise the technical bar.
Your impact will be measured by the quality of your solutions, the performance of the systems you build, and the example you set across the team.
Skills and more of the day-to-day
- Design and implement high-quality, scalable, and secure software across our tech stack (Python, Django, React, React Native, AWS)
- Lead the technical direction of features, services, and core platform improvements
- Work collaboratively with product, design, and engineering to define and deliver outcomes
- Serve as the go-to technical partner for product managers, offering strategic guidance and owning deep expertise in your product domain.
- Write clean, testable, and efficient code while encouraging best practices across the team
- Provide thoughtful feedback on architecture, technical designs, and code reviews
- Debug complex issues and take ownership of the solutions you ship
- Contribute to improving development workflows, tooling, and automation
- Stay close to production, monitor systems, and proactively address reliability or performance concerns
- Support continuous learning by sharing knowledge and mentoring others informally
- Help drive a culture of experimentation, accountability, and simplicity in engineering
Bonus Points
- Experience in fintech, payments, or compliance-heavy environments
- Strong product and customer orientation
- Familiarity with mobile-first architecture or offline-first React Native apps
- Experience with complex API integrations or third-party platforms
- An eye for technical detail and a bias for action
Our growing list of Weel perks:
🥇 Options package - we feel and act like owners because we are!
🎂 Birthday leave and a budget to celebrate you!
🎉 Country-wide team events (and travel budgets for interstate employees)
👶 A progressive parental leave policy
🥳 Quarterly budgets for team bonding
🧘🏻♀️ Wellness leave (no need to throw a “sickie” – your mental well-being is just as important as your physical health)
🪴 Study leave and limitless career-growth opportunities
❤️🩹 Access to our Uprise Employee Assistance Program
🐶 Pet-friendly offices
🌞 Summer Fridays
We love our private space within WeWork, right in the heart of the city. With bottomless mugs of free coffee, puppy picnics and regular recreational activities, there's something for everyone.
We value face to face time and operate in a hybrid environment, promoting a healthy work-life balance.
We're better together
At Weel, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace that promotes and values diversity: a place where everyone can bring their authentic, whole selves to work.
We celebrate uniqueness and diversity of experiences because we know that bringing together different points of views is our strength.
Our values are: (1) bias towards action; (2) relentlessly exceeding customer expectations; (3) collective accountability; and (4) speed through simplification.
If you don't think you meet all the requirements of the role, but align with our values, we would still love to hear from you!
- Department
- Engineering
- Locations
- Sydney
- Remote status
- Hybrid
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