Staff Engineer

We’re Civica and we make software that helps deliver critical services for citizens all around the world. From local to state government, to education, to health and care, over 5,000 public bodies across the globe use our software to help provide critical services to over 100 million citizens. 

Our aspiration is to be a GovTech champion everywhere we work around the globe, supporting the needs of citizens and those that serve them every day. Building on 21 years of continuous growth and success, we're at a pivotal point on our journey to realise that aspiration. 

Why you will love this opportunity as a Staff Engineer at Civica 

We are undertaking a major transformation to consolidate dozens of legacy products into a unified technology platform. As a Staff Engineer focused on product engineering, you will play a foundational role in shaping how we build, scale, and evolve our next-generation technology stack. 

Working across multiple teams, you will define the engineering practices, architectural direction, and enabling patterns that underpin our unified applications. You will collaborate closely with product managers, engineering leaders, and other staff/principal engineers to improve delivery flow, reduce duplication, and ensure long-term maintainability and quality. 

This role is a unique opportunity to help drive architectural clarity and delivery alignment across a modern React/Golang-based stack, while supporting the transition from legacy systems to a cohesive, modular product suite. 

What you will do to be successful in this role  

• Define and evolve product engineering practices, tooling, and shared application architecture patterns. 

• Lead technical discovery, prototyping, and architectural alignment across teams contributing to our new platform. 

• Provide hands-on support to unblock teams, improve implementation quality, and resolve cross-team technical challenges. 

• Collaborate with engineering managers and product leads to shape delivery flow, team responsibilities, and ownership boundaries. 

• Act as a mentor and technical coach to engineers across the organisation. 

• Contribute to long-term architectural decisions that optimise for modularity, resilience, and operability. 

• Facilitate healthy architectural debate, consensus-building, and design governance. 

• Navigate ambiguity and help co-create the organisation’s path toward consolidated, high-quality delivery.