Senior Engineer

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 1500 people across Australia, The United Kingdom, Africa, Canada, France, New Zealand and Asia.

Build your career at Iress! 

Role purpose

The Engineer is responsible for delivering high-quality software solutions across the entire product lifecycle—from inception to deployment and production support. By writing clean, well-tested code, the role works collaboratively to build scalable and reliable functionality for Iress products.

This role focuses on key technical specialisations (e.g., Software, Data, Security, Support & Reliability) while developing domain expertise in areas such as Trading, Lending, or Advice.

Combining technical engineering with collaborative leadership, the Engineer focuses on delivering impactful business outcomes that drive success for 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 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 not the 'primary' engineer and resolves issues quickly and effectively.
• Contributes positively to the team, providing 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. Mentors/coaches more junior engineers, and takes feedback or seeks 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

• Has a growth mindset and excitement about tackling the next challenge with a team; understands that growth comes from continuously developing through hard work.
• Experience supporting software used in production.
• Experience 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.
• 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 with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks. Has experience in refactoring software and applying automated testing in order to uplift software quality.
• Experience in application architecture; leads the design and build of software to "clean code" principles, drives good practice such as SOLID principles.
• Leaves the codebase and other engineers on the team better than they found them!

Strong technical knowledge of the following:

• C# .NET Core
• REST API
• AWS

Knowledge or experience of the following is desirable:

• Terraform
• Python
• TypeScript / JavaScript
• Build pipelines
• PostgreSQL or DynamoDB

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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Employment Type

Employee

Time Type

Full time