Optimal Reality Forward Deployed Engineer - Back End
Melbourne, VIC, AU Canberra, ACT, AU Adelaide, SA, AU Perth, WA, AU Sydney, NSW, AU Brisbane, QLD, AU
Job Requisition ID: 39171
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- Training and development - at Deloitte we believe in investing in our best assets, the people. You will have access to world class training and funding for industry and other professional certifications. You’ll also work with wide range of clients, technologies, and methodologies, which will accelerate your learning.
- Support and coaching to progress your career. You will have access to mentors and coaches who will help you pave a path for career progression.
- A culture where we listen to each other and pride ourselves in delivering the best possible outcomes. Most importantly, we love to have fun.
We’re committed to continually building a safe and respectful workplace, where all our people feel appreciated and accepted. Through the creation of endorsed employee-led diversity networks which promote cultural, disability, LGBTI+, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and gender equality, we’re leading the way to shape an environment where everybody can thrive. Inclusion at Deloitte
Are you excited and passionate about assisting public and private sector organisations accelerate their transition to a cleaner, greener, and innovative future whilst growing your strategic and operational consulting skills? Deloitte is the place for you.
What will your typical day look like?
As a Forward Deployed Engineer – Back end in the Optimal Reality team you will design and support effective delivery capability across Deloitte to implement Optimal Reality to solve challenging client problems
- Design and develop back-end services and APIs that support real-time digital twin simulations, agentic AI agents, and event-driven applications.
- Build scalable microservices to support ingestion, transformation, and storage of high-velocity IoT, sensor, and operational data.
- Integrate with AI engines, simulation frameworks, and orchestration tools to enable autonomous decision-making and digital twin scenarios.
- Collaborate with front-end developers, data scientists, and digital twin architects to deliver full-stack solutions.
- Implement and maintain robust data models and streaming pipelines using cloud-native services.
- Ensure secure, high-availability, and low-latency system performance for mission-critical deployments.
- Automate testing, deployment, and monitoring as part of CI/CD DevSecOps practices.
- Participate in sprint planning, architectural reviews, and technical documentation activities.
- Contribute to Deloitte’s Optimal Reality platform by extending core services, connectors, and reusable components.
About the team:
Optimal Reality is Deloitte’s advanced Digital Twin platform. We help organisations in asset intensive industries to use data and digital technologies to visualise, understand, control and optimise their network-based operations in real time. Being part of the Optimal Reality team is a unique opportunity to be part of an outstanding team creating a world-class technology platform delivering solutions for clients in Australia and beyond.
We ingest multiple data sources, processing millions of messages an hour and present this in real time to operators to improve their decision making and ultimately make our cities smarter and lives easier. We use computer vision and other AI/ML to improve our understanding of what's happening and we use simulation and prediction techniques to optimise for the best possible outcome.
Our back end languages include Golang, Julia and Python. We use GraphQL in the BFF layer and our front end applications are built with React and Javascript and uses DeckGL. We're a full stack team with skills across front end, back end, data and devops.
Obsessed with speed, and grounded in Formula One thinking, we have a clear focus on finding new and better ways of ingesting, processing, and predicting, live data to create smarter and greener cities through digital twins of transport networks, new energy systems and across supply chains - building applications to help operational staff to improve their ability to collaborate, and make the best decisions to optimally control the network.
Our team is smart, passionate, loves what they do and has fun while they do it. An amazing opportunity to make an impact that matters with high profile clients - be a part of one of the fastest growing teams.
Enough about us, let’s talk about you.
You are a highly motivated individual with:
Essential skills:
- 3+ years of experience in back-end or full-stack development with strong command of Python, Node.js, Julia, Java, or Go.
- Proficient in building RESTful APIs, event-driven systems, and microservice architectures.
- Experience with real-time data processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink).
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, TimescaleDB).
- Experience implementing scalable and secure services in a distributed systems context.
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work in agile, cross-functional teams.
- Have or be eligible for AGSVA baseline clearance
Desirable skills:
- Exposure to digital twin platforms (e.g., Optimal Reality, Unity Reflect, Azure Digital Twins, Siemens, or similar).
- Familiarity with agentic AI patterns, autonomous agents, or LLM orchestration (e.g., LangChain, CrewAI).
- Knowledge of simulation frameworks and their integration with back-end services.
- Exposure to data modeling for geospatial, asset, or system-of-systems environments.
- Experience with DevOps toolchains (e.g., Terraform, GitHub Actions, Helm, Prometheus/Grafana).
- Knowledge of industry-specific challenges in sectors such as transport, energy, mining, or manufacturing
Why Deloitte?
At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.
We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.
We prioritise flexibility and choice. At Deloitte, you get trust on Day 1. We know our people get their best work done when they’re in control of where and how they work, designing their work week around their client, team and personal commitments.
We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.
Next Steps
Sound like the sort of role for you? Apply now, we’d love to hear from you!
By applying for this job, you’ll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We’ve designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.