Front-End Engineer

Australian Securities Exchange; Council of the City of Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global securities exchange is seeking a Front-End Engineer based in Sydney, Australia. This role involves developing digital engagement solutions, requiring a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in technology or product development, preferably in financial services. The ideal candidate will have expertise in cloud services and modern programming languages.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Support for diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technology or product development.
• Experience in financial services is preferred.
• Demonstrable production experience in a highly resilient environment.

Responsibilities

• Establish technical solutions for digital products and services.
• Build strong relationships with product and engineering teams.
• Contribute to engineering practices and support the team.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Cloud expertise

Java

JavaScript

React

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

GCP

Node.js

Job description

Overview

Front-End Engineer – Australian Securities Exchange, Sydney, Australia

Australian Securities Exchange Sydney, Australia

ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets

Why join ASX?

When you join ASX, you're joining a company with a strong purpose - to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.

In your new role, you'll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.

Want to know why we are a great place to work, click on the link to learn more.

www.asx.com.au/about/careers/a-great-place-to-work

We are more than a securities exchange!

The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines. We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. We have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance. We are proud of the diversity of our organisation and the culture of inclusion that all our people help to build every day. Our employee-led groups are known for celebrating cultural and religious events, championing LGBTIQ+ inclusion, inspiring giving and volunteering, promoting gender equality, and wellbeing. We are an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality and a member of the Champions of Change Coalition for the advancement of gender equality in Australia.

About The Team:

The Digital and Enterprise Technology team are here to deliver compelling experiences through digital engagement platforms that support our customer-centric digital strategy, driving growth, leading in innovation and continuous improvement. Our team brings together quality engineering, product leadership and our customers to realise our purpose.

About The Role

This is a key role required to develop our Products, Services and Channels, designing, building and supporting the next generation of digital engagement.

The Front-End Engineer will analyse and implement technical solutions for digital products and services across multiple domains at ASX for data driven, modern, flexible, secure and highly resilient engagement points. The Front-End Engineer will work together with a full stack team to enable the realisation of modern, sophisticated and simple digital experiences for our internal and external stakeholders.

What You'll Do

• See the big picture - Establish the technical solutions for our digital products and services enabling re-use, flexibility and scale and accelerating our ability to build compelling products and services.
• Ideate - evolve and re-imagine our technology stack ensuring resilient and modern functionality is maintained while clearing the way for the next horizon of innovation.
• Connect - Build strong relationships with our product, engineering, cyber, data and delivery stakeholders. Research and learn, bringing in innovative thought leadership to the team and driving designs that are contextual given our current landscape, our regulatory obligations and our future goals.
• Measure everything - enable consistent and coherent monitoring and analytics capabilities, enabling the collection and use of data from all of our products to identify issues, monitor performance and measurably improve our platform.
• Build - directly contribute to engineering, engineering practices, correction and support and work in close partnership with your product and engineering team members to build and experiment cohesive products and services - delivering frequently, efficiently and safely based on codified patterns, controlled pipelines and automated quality frameworks.
• Assure, run and manage - support the team across quality engineering enabling consistent patterns, assessment of quality and improvements to designs to simplify our landscape, eliminate waste and to operation and run manage the platforms safely. A hands on problem solver that deeply understands the technical implementations applied across the product stack.
• The role is required for our Public access channels, Subscription channels, our Data & Innovation Squads and our Enterprise Enablement team.

What You'll Need

Must have

• Bachelor's degree - Comp Science, Data, Finance or Tech / Masters +
• 5+ years
• Financial services, services design, solutions architect/solutions design, product development, engineering and delivery
• Stakeholder management, influence and engaging across technology, architecture and business teams with executive presence.
• Product development, solutions design, service design, technical solutions, functional and non-functional requirements, testing for complex financial engagement.
• Cloud, integration, data exchange, platform architecture, hands on engineering expertise, scalable platforms and products, componentised and service based design.
• CI-CD, control and unit testing, production ready applications, micro services, automation, troubleshooting, tuning and performance, secure coding and data/application protection.
• Key platforms: Java, .Net, Javascript, APEX, Python, React, SQL, Node.js, HTML, CSS, AWS, GCP, REST, streaming and queuing technologies. Open to other skills, languages and frameworks with demonstrable production experience in a highly resilient and scalable environment.

Nice to have

• AI experience and skills
• Direct experience in capital markets
• Cloud certification, Business or Product certification
• Customer domain experience, compliance and risk experience, regulatory environment experience.

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you'll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the criteria of this role. If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know.

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks completed as part of the onboarding process.

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