Live staff software engineer roles in Melbourne, VIC, from 7 employers, updated daily. Ads placed only at state level appear under Victoria.
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia
You're a hands-on, staff-level full-stack engineer who sets technical direction and still ships code We're the CommBiz Mobile & Insight crew, building the services and apps CommBank's business clients rely on Together…
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Lead and elevate native iOS engineering practices across the domain Contribute to DevSecOps practices and operational excellence across CI/CD and cloud environments Drive architectural direction for scalable, modular,…
Airwallex
About Airwallex Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or throug…
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Staff Software Engineer (AWS and AI) Lead the design and operation of secure, resilient cloud-native platforms. Shape an evolving enterprise platform while mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices. Work…
Shield AI
Job Description: Shield AI's Software Test & Automation Team develops the verification, validation, and automation capabilities that enable rapid delivery of Hivemind autonomy across the Expeditionary and Emerging Ope…
Block
It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique fina…
WEX
About the Role The Data Acquisition Team is the entry point to WEX’s Data-as-a-Service platform, responsible for ingesting, validating, mastering, and delivering trusted data from internal systems and third-party prov…
Anduril
About the Team Anduril’s Maritime Division has assembled a diverse team of experts in software, robotics, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and data analysis to create software and hardware solutions that radica…
Marqo
Company Overview At Marqo, we're pioneering the future of search with our open-source engine that thinks like a human. We are a startup headquartered in San Francisco, with engineering operations out of Melbourne, Aus…
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Estimated employment
Estimated people employed as Software and Applications Programmers in Greater Melbourne, from Jobs and Skills Australia's monthly nowcast, to October 2026.
Figures cover ABS region Greater Melbourne (GCCSA 2GMEL).
| Month | People employed |
|---|---|
| October 2021 | 48,339 |
| October 2022 | 54,027 |
| October 2023 | 54,715 |
| October 2024 | 58,912 |
| October 2025 | 70,186 |
| October 2026 | 77,228 |
Jobs and Skills Australia's nowcast is experimental: its figures are model estimates of the people employed in each occupation, not a count of them, and each monthly release revises the months before it.
Source: Jobs and Skills Australia, Nowcast of Employment by Region and Occupation (NERO), October 2026, CC BY 4.0. Experimental estimates.
ViewJobs analysis of the Jobs and Skills Australia Nowcast of Employment by Region and Occupation: Capital city, state and national figures are sums of SA4 regions.
Software and Applications Programmers
No national shortage (Jobs and Skills Australia, 2026 Occupation Shortage List).
Employment is projected to grow 26.7% nationally, to 235,692 by May 2035 (Jobs and Skills Australia Employment Projections).
Jobs and Skills Australia rates occupations nationally each year; projections are model estimates.
Jobs and Skills Australia: Recent trends in displaced workers
Source: Jobs and Skills Australia, 2026 Occupation Shortage List, CC BY 4.0.
Source: Jobs and Skills Australia, Employment Projections, May 2025 to May 2035, CC BY 4.0. Projections are model estimates.
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