Software Engineer

About this role

Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About the Role (your why)

Software delivery is changing — fast. The engineers who will define the next decade aren’t just writing code; they’re working alongside AI agents, orchestrating deterministic tooling, and shaping delivery pipelines that move from specification to production at a pace that was impossible two years ago.

As a Software Engineer at Datacom, you will be a hands-on individual contributor operating at the frontier of this shift. You will translate product outcomes into machine-executable work, orchestrate specialised agents through end-to-end delivery workflows, and wire in the verification gates – automated, agent-driven, and human – that give us confidence to ship. Integration is a first-class automated concern in your pipeline, not a downstream activity.

If you are a hands-on engineer who sees AI not as a bolt-on but as the operating model for modern delivery, this role gives you the mandate and the environment to work that way every day.

What you’ll do

As a Software Engineer you will be focused on:

• Operating day-to-day within an agentic SDLC – an iterative, collaborative loop of agents, deterministic tools, and human signals focused on producing production-ready code rapidly, rather than stage-based documentation and handovers.
• Decomposing requirements into discrete, verifiable units that can be executed by specialised agents and validated through automated verification steps wired into the delivery pipeline.
• Orchestrating end-to-end delivery flows so that every activity is clearly a tool activity, an agent activity, or a human signal – and ownership is never ambiguous.
• Applying risk-calibrated routing so changes receive the appropriate depth of automated checks, agent review, and human approval based on change type and impa...