At Iress, we make things happen

We believe technology should help people perform better every day. Since our beginning in 1993, people across financial services have trusted us to take their performance to the next level. More than 10,000 businesses and 500,000 people use our software, from the world’s most iconic financial services brands to advice firms of all sizes, banks, insurers, investment managers, traders and brokers. Iress is one of Australia’s largest technology companies and employs more than 1,100 people across Australia, The United Kingdom, Africa, Canada, New Zealand and Asia.

Build your career at Iress!

The Senior Engineer is a role that is responsible for delivering against the various aspects of product engineering from inception to deployment and production support. The role is performed by engineers who have demonstrated proficiency in several technical specialisations, such as “Software”, “Data”, “Security”, “Support & Reliability” and will have or gain deep knowledge in one or more business domains (e.g. Trading, Lending, Advice).

The senior engineer role offers an advancement opportunity to Engineers who have obtained the technical engineering and leadership attributes required to perform at this level. Combined with behavioural attributes that focus on business outcomes delivered in a consistent way of working, the role focuses on driving the success of Iress and its clients.

Some of the amazing things you’ll be involved in

• Produces high-quality, robust and resilient software, whether through the development of new code or the modification and improvement of existing code. Ensures quality is "built-in" and ensures quality is inspected appropriately using automation testing techniques.

• Participates and provides quality input into any requirements or analysis of solutions, features or non-functional requirements.

• Provides support for software or solutions. Takes initiative in troubleshooting even if they are not the 'primary' engineer and resolves issues quickly and effectively.

• Contributes positively to the team, provides relevant and appropriate inputs to enable effective team outcomes to be delivered.

• Ensures any key person risk is minimised by working with others, appropriately documenting and automating work.

• Fosters and develops strong working relationships with the wider technology group. Will mentor/coach more junior engineers, and take feedback or seek guidance from more senior engineers.

• Effectively manages work, whether assigned or taken. Ensures dependencies, issues or risks on other teams are known and owns remediation of such.

• Provides mentoring to less-experienced engineers, ensuring an uplift in the quality of new code or changes to existing code.

• Contributes to, or leads in the design of features and non-functional outcomes within the software.

• Leads the removal of any manual work existing or introduced by automating in line with other teams, or by leveraging strategic tooling or methods.

• Ensures leverage and scale is gained by working cross-functionally and cross-team. Uses or contributes to platform services.

• Ensures software security is appropriate and remediates efficiently if inadequacies arise.

What you will bring

• Experience in 'backend' engineering using multiple languages, such as Python, C#, .NET, .NET Core, C++, Java (or JVM-based).

• Experience in building, designing or leveraging API techniques including RESTful, SOAP or socket-based.

• Experience in 'front end' engineering using multiple languages and frameworks such as Typescript, Javascript, CSS, React, Vue or Angular.

• Experience in application architecture, leads the design and build of software to "clean code" principles, drives good practice such as SOLID principles.

• Strong 'DevOps' focus and experience building and deploying infrastructure with cloud deployment technologies. Has experience applying effective security measures.

• Deep experience implementing or creating fully automated, end to end build and deployment pipelines, through the use of tools such as BuildKite, Jenkins, GoCD.

• Experience using observability tooling to identify and solve problems and prevent future recurrence through root cause analysis and remediation.

• Strong, multi-year experience as a member of teams working in Agile-based environments. Experience in collaborative coding, working in co-located or remote team structures. Experience mentoring less-experienced engineers while actively learning and engaging with more experienced technologists.

• Experience in driving software quality by utilising the test pyramid. Has led other engineers in uplifting or introducing testing across the pipeline, including security, performance, load, functional and integration testing. Has experience in the use of metrics to focus test investment.

• Deep multi-year, multi-paradigm database/data-storage experience including the use of various databases (Postgresql preferably) and caching technologies, both self-hosted and cloud-based. Has participated in, or made decisions in the selection of data storage mechanisms to meet or solve business/technical requirements.

• Knowledge of multiple programming languages and paradigms and experience in applying "the right tool to the job". Has delivered production software using frameworks and libraries. Experienced in risks, issues and operational requirements of using third-party solutions as well as internally developed technology. Uses design patterns to improve software design.

• Experience in the applying containerisation to software, using tools such as Docker, Windows Containers, ECS or Kubernetes.

• Will test the status quo and enjoys thinking about and implementing innovative ways to solve problems - and in doing this is not afraid to fail!

• Has a growth mindset and excitement about tackling the next challenge with a team, understands that growth comes from continuously developing through hard work.

Why work with us?

• 8 additional paid days per year to extend your weekends

• Hybrid working

• Generous cash bonus for every successful referral

• Starting school leave - 8.5 days of leave to assist your children with the transition to school

• Up to 26 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary carers (up to 4 weeks for secondary carers), and the ability to work part-time when returning to work

• 3 days’ paid leave per year to participate in charity initiatives

• Discounted health insurance premiums

• Access to learning and development programs through LinkedIn Learning

Iress is committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive culture. We strongly believe that diversity is what makes our teams and our products succeed. Our people have different experiences, skills, perspectives and beliefs and everyone’s uniqueness is valued and celebrated.

Our hiring decisions are never based on sexual orientation, race, gender identity, religion, disability, citizenship, marital or family status and age. Even if you feel you don’t meet all of the requirements of the role, we would still like to hear from you!

We’re also proud to be globally recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer that promotes and supports all women in the workplace.

For more information about what we do, our people and values, please visit our website -https://www.iress.com/join-us/careers/

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