See yourself being part of a large, transformational change? This could be the role for you!
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 2,000 people across Australia, The United Kingdom, Africa, Canada, France, 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. By writing clean code, (which includes testing, observability, security and pipelines), the role will, in conjunction with one or more teams, engineer quality functionality in Iress software. The Engineer role will have a focus on one or more technical specialisations, such as “Software”, “Data”, “Security”, “Support & Reliability” and will have or gain some knowledge in one or more business domains (e.g. Trading, Lending, Advice). The software engineer role will combine technical engineering capabilities with leadership and behavioural attributes that focus on business outcomes delivered in a consistent way of working that drives the success of Iress and its clients.

Some of the awesome things you’ll be involved with:

• 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.

What you will bring:

• Experience in engineering using c++. Other languages including SQL, Python and Javascript are an advantage. Experience with AWS and other cloud technologies is also an advantage.
• Experience in application architecture, leads the design and build of software to “clean code” principles, drives good practice such as SOLID principles.
• 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.
• Multi-year, multi-paradigm database experience, including the use of relational and NoSQL solutions.
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks. Has experience in refactoring software and applying automated testing in order to uplift software quality.
• Experience delivering software in multiple operating environments and platforms including self-hosted, physical & virtual and cloud
• Experience in, or has owned commercial outcomes for software, whether through acquisition or consumption.
• Experience working within a team, working on a single software product or component.
• Has a growth mindset and excitement about tackling the next challenge with a team, understands that growth comes from continuously developing through hard work.
• 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!
• Experience supporting software used in production.
• A proven record utilising continuous delivery techniques to move software into production environments.
• Experience using observability tooling to identify and solve problems and prevent future recurrence through root cause analysis and remediation

Why work with us?
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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 Udemy

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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Employment Type
Employee
Time Type
Full tim

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