Software Developer in Melbourne

RISER is a Melbourne-based influencer marketing business that gets products into the hands of real people and turns that into content brands can use. Since launching in 2022, we've grown to 10,000+ micro-influencers and 500+ campaigns for 500+ brands, including Dove, Grill'd, Nando's, MCoBeauty and JSHealth Vitamins.

We're building the RISER platform to run influencer campaigns end to end: briefing, creator selection, sending products to creators, collecting their content, and reporting. The first version is built: creators can sign up and connect their Instagram, brands can set up campaigns, and our team can run each campaign and track the content it produces. The next step is getting it ready for our team, brands and creators to use every day.

You’ll be our first in-house tech hire across RISER and Theory Crew, with two jobs: developing the RISER platform, and being our IT person. The platform is where most of your time will go.

You’ll be trusted to shape the platform, not just work through a to-do list. You’ll get to know it deeply, see how it’s really used, and improve it with our internal team and the brands and creators who use it. You’ll use AI as a core part of how you work, to write and review code, automate the boring stuff, and get more done than a team twice the size.

You’ll have support from our team and partners, plus the training and tools you need. As we grow, so does the role: do well here and you could step up to lead our tech and build a team of your own.

What you'll do:

• Build and support the platform
• Learn how the RISER platform is built and runs, inside and out
• Ship new features and fixes, using AI coding tools to move fast and keep quality high
• Work alongside the team to see how they use the platform, help them get the most from it, and turn their pain points into improvements
• Keep it running: monitor, troubleshoot, and support users when something breaks
• Help launch it
• Help get the platform ready for outside users: fixing bugs, tightening security and making sign-up easy
• Help with demos, how-to guides and support as brands and creators start using it
• Share what you hear from users to help decide what we build next
• Work with outside suppliers
• Run IT across the group
• Look after the software and services both businesses use, from setting up new tools to cancelling ones we don't need
• Keep accounts, devices and data secure, and set up simple rules for who can access what
• Set people up when they join, and help when someone's tech isn't working
• Automate manual, repetitive work with AI, and help the team get more out of AI in their own roles

Who you are:

• You’ve recently finished a degree in software development, computer science or similar, or you’re otherwise early in your career.
• You won’t have done all of this before, and that’s fine. We don’t expect you to have run IT, reviewed contracts or launched a product.
• We do expect you to work it out: you pick things up fast, you’re not afraid to ask, and AI is the first tool you reach for when something’s new.
• You take ownership. You see a problem, work out what to do, and do it, without waiting to be asked.
• You already build with AI. You use tools like Claude, Codex or Cursor to build things, and you’re excited about how far that can go.
• You're curious about the business. You want to understand why the team needs something, not just what to build.
• You're a good communicator. You can learn to talk tech with a supplier, then translate it for someone who isn’t technical.
• You're practical. You'd rather ship a simple thing that works this week than a perfect thing next quarter.

What you’ll work with: Python (Django), React and TypeScript, GitHub and GitHub Actions, DigitalOcean, SendGrid and RapidAPI. Experience with any of these, or with IT support, is a bonus, not a requirement. You’ll pick up the rest on the job.

Why you'll like it here:

• Get in early. Join a fast-growing business at an early stage and be part of the team that builds what comes next.
• Have a real say. Work directly with the founders and the people who use what you build, and help decide what we ship next.
• Real product, real users. What you build goes live for our internal team, brands and creators, and you’ll see the impact straight away.
• Learn heaps. Product, engineering, IT and suppliers across several businesses, a breadth most developers don’t get in one role.
• The latest tools. The best AI tools, paid for, and the freedom to experiment with them.
• A fun team. Our office in South Yarra, team events and offsites, brand launches and creator events, and people who genuinely enjoy working together.

Location: South Yarra, Melbourne. Office-based, with potential for hybrid once you know the platform and the team. Full-time, permanent. Reports to: Business Director. Full working rights in Australia required.