Senior Engineer

See yourself being part of a large, transformational change? This could be the role for you! Who We Are At Iress, 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. From the world’s most established financial brands to new and disruptive players, we help improve every aspect of our clients’ businesses so that they can work better, every day. Iress is one of Australia’s largest technology companies and employs more than 2,250 people across Asia Pacific, North America, Africa and UK & Europe. Role Overview: Product Xplan Mortgage combines Mortgage and Protection sourcing in a single platform. It reduces the need to re-key and drives greater efficiencies with straight through processing from fact find to online sourcing and application. Team We are a small friendly team who are passionate about the product we work on and the colleagues we work with. We are seeking a forward thinking, highly motivated Senior Engineer to join our XPM team.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. Your objectives and responsibilities will focus on… 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. Fosters and develops strong working relationships with the wider technology group and takes feedback or seeks guidance from more senior engineers. Provides mentoring to less-experienced engineers, ensuring an uplift in the quality of new code or changes to existing code. Effectively manages work, whether assigned or taken. Ensures dependencies, issues or risks on other teams are known and owns remediation of such. 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. To be successful in this role you will… You will be a driven, ambitious team player with experience working in Agile-based environments and enjoys thinking about and implementing innovative ways to solve problems and enjoys thinking about and implementing innovative ways to solve problems. You will be confident to coach less-experienced engineers to support team upskilling while driving software quality through testing across the pipeline, including security, performance, load, functional and integration testing and uses design patterns to improve software design. You will be a strong front end developer with experience in; React, Angular, Javascript, Typescript, CCS or Vue. You will also have an understanding of backend engineering languages such as; C#, .net, Python or Java. You will have experience in application architecture, in older and newer frameworks and be able to lead the design and build of software to "clean code" principles and drive good practice. Other preferably experience includes building and deploying infrastructure with cloud deployment technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and implementing fully automated, end to end build and deployment pipelines. Why Work With Us? 6 paid days per year to extend your weekends 25 days annual leave Annual Leave (Buy/sell back options) State-of-the-art offices Free on-site gym in our Cheltenham office open 24/7 Equity grants for our top 25% performers Annual Profit Share when Iress meets its annual profit targets Casual dress, Hybrid & Flexible work policy Access to learning and development programs 3 days’ leave per year for charity initiatives Global 36-hour hackathon Starting school leave - 8.5 days of leave to assist your kids with the transition to school Life, Income & Private Medical Insurance Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Policy Employment Type Employee Time Type Full time