LGT Wealth Management was formed around a clear and uncompromising vision – to bring global best practice in building institutional quality investment portfolios to Australian clients.
With a shared passion for building an uncompromised business – we created something new from the ground up. A chance to leave behind the things that weren’t working, while enhancing the things that were. Our authentic and personalised client-first commitment. Our entrepreneurial spirit. Our focus in best-in-class advice. And our intimate understanding of the Australian private wealth landscape.
In 2022 we became a part of the LGT Group, who shared our entrepreneurial spirit, long-term approach and private-ownership model. Today, with the global expertise, stability, and capability of LGT behind us, we can work without being reliant on markets or margins, with a singular focus on giving our clients the advice and deep expertise they need for generations to come.
We are looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Software Engineering team within the broader Platform function on a 12-month fixed-term contract. As a Full Stack Software Engineer in the Platform Team, you will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining common digital capabilities used across multiple teams.
We are looking for a hands-on Full Stack Engineer with end-to-end capability across modern Angular/React frontends and Java-based backend development, as well as solid experience working in a containerised, API-driven, CI/CD-enabled enterprise environment.
Your Responsibilities
Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain platform products, internal tools, and shared services used across multiple teams.
Build frontend experiences for internal platform applications, developer portals, administrative consoles, operational dashboards, and self-service workflows.
Develop backend services, APIs, integrations, and automation components that support shared engineering and operational capabilities.
Create and maintain reusable libraries, components, templates, standards, and patterns that improve consistency and reduce duplication.
Collaborate with architects and technical stakeholders to produce scalable, secure, and supportable solution designs.
Support the design and implementation of integration patterns and interfaces across internal systems and third-party platforms, where required.
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, build and release processes, deployment automation, and software delivery tooling.
Champion testing practices, including unit testing, integration testing, automated regression coverage, and quality controls within the delivery lifecycle.
Improve developer experience by identifying friction points and implementing practical enhancements to engineering workflows and platform usability.
Support platform observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, troubleshooting, and operational health, ensuring issues are identified and resolved efficiently.
Participate in incident triage, problem management, release and change support, and production issue resolution across the full stack.
Identify and clearly communicate technical risks, dependencies, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Participate actively in agile ceremonies, including stand-ups, planning, refinement, retrospectives, and demos.
Contribute to technical documentation, implementation guides, support runbooks, onboarding materials, and operational procedures.
Participate in code reviews, peer collaboration, and engineering practice uplift, helping to strengthen the overall maturity of the Platform Team.
Work with security, risk, and governance stakeholders to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards, compliance obligations, and secure engineering principles.
Support continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to simplify architecture, reduce technical debt, improve reliability, and accelerate delivery.
Troubleshoot issues across the user interface, APIs, services, integrations, data access layers, environments, and deployment pipelines.
Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and delivery teams to ensure platform solutions are practical, adoptable, and well supported.
Contribute to estimation, planning, and prioritisation activities, helping the team deliver valuable outcomes in a sustainable way.
Your skills and experience
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related field. Equivalent practical experience in software engineering will also be considered.
Relevant certifications in cloud platforms, software engineering, DevOps, Agile, security, or container technologies are highly regarded.
Must have
Strong commercial experience in full-stack software engineering across backend, frontend, and mobile development
Proven expertise in Java and Spring Boot, with strong experience building REST APIs and microservices
Strong frontend development experience using Angular or React, along with TypeScript, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS
Solid mobile development capability using Swift and Kotlin
Experience working with SQL and relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL and/or Oracle
Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift in enterprise environments
Experience with Git-based CI/CD pipelines, ideally GitLab, and build tooling such as Maven or Gradle
Strong understanding of automated testing practices and tools such as JUnit, Playwright, or similar
Exposure to monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk, Grafana/Prometheus, Kibana/Elasticsearch, or equivalent
Good understanding of secure software development and modern authentication patterns such as OAuth2, OIDC, and JWT
Comfortable working in Agile delivery teams using tools such as Jira and Confluence
Nice to have
Experience with integration and middleware technologies such as Apache Camel, Red Hat Fuse, ActiveMQ, IBM MQ, Kafka, JMS, SFTP, and SOAP
Exposure to cloud and data platforms such as Azure, OCI, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, or Snowflake
Familiarity with platform and DevOps tooling including Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, Tekton, Artifactory, SonarQube, Ansible, and Terraform
Experience with persistence and data tooling such as JPA/Hibernate, JDBC, Liquibase, and Spring Batch
Working knowledge of additional technologies such as Python, .NET, Nginx, and Power Apps
Familiarity with EFK or broader observability tooling
Ability to use AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code and Codex to improve development efficiency
Experience in financial services or wealth platforms, ideally with technologies such as Avaloq Core Platform, Avaloq Front Platform, BT Panorama, Macquarie Wrap, Netwealth, CFS Edge, Hub24, or similar
LGT Wealth Management is committed to the ongoing development of their employees. Your development will be managed and tailored to your role and future career path.
LGT Wealth Management is an equal opportunity employer committed to embracing a diverse and inclusive work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people regardless of their gender, marital/parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, age, background, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.
