Engineer

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.

Iress is looking for a Software Engineer who can join a newly formed team of experienced engineers and product specialists to take our in-house Financial Application Platform to global scale. The platform provides the ability for teams to host financial widgets within our flagship desktop and web-based trading and market data applications. This is an opportunity to have global impact in a rapidly transforming industry. You’ll be working in a small, focused team using agile and DevOps practices with experienced engineers. 

When you walk through our doors, you’ll start by helping improve the runtime performance and scalability of the platform to ensure that our early adopter clients have a great experience.

• You’ll be productionising the cloud-based components to support global scale.

• You’ll be working with senior developers on the platform and learning technical governance that promotes high-quality, security and dev practices.

• You’ll be working closely with senior developers to design the processes and implement the tools needed to achieve continuous delivery of widgets.

• You’ll learn tools, scaffolding and proven patterns to make developing new widgets a painless process.

• You’ll be helping with the quality and test automation practices

Working with a broad set of technologies, including:

• Core Frontend: Strong proficiency in React.js, TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3.

• JavaScript tools and libraries such as Webpack, Lerna, Jest, Yeoman, NodeJS

• CSS and CSS frameworks

• Chromium Embedded framework

• API Integration: Experience consuming RESTful APIsl.

• Backend Familiarity: Knowledge of .NET is highly desirable, and experience with Node.js is a required for current widget backend setup

• Cloud tech such as Terraform, AWS, Docker

• Github, Buildkite, Artifactory, Datadog, Sonarqube 

• Bonus: Familiarity with testing (Jest, React Testing Library) and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB.

• You will have a lot of empathy for the users of your software and care deeply about providing a great experience.

• Developer productivity is a core concern to you, whether it’s optimising your own workflows or working with senior engineers on tooling and techniques, to save engineers from pain and frustration and bring joy to their workflow.

• You strongly value the non-functionals: quality, performance, scale, security. 

• You’ll learn to be an expert with the JavaScript ecosystem and building web apps.

• 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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