Principal Software Engineer (Front-End)

GROW Inc

Sydney

Hybrid

AUD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

ME Days - Take an additional 3 days of leave for wellness
Birthday Leave - Extra day off for your birthday
Employee Share Option Program
10 weeks of paid Parental Leave
Learning & Development Budget
Hybrid Work Arrangement
Exciting Discounts

Job summary

A leading FinTech company in Sydney is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Front-End) to architect and build scalable applications. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience, fluency in TypeScript, and strong knowledge of frontend frameworks like Vue.js. This role includes mentoring junior developers and driving best practices in code quality, with an attractive hybrid work arrangement.

Qualifications

  • Strong desire to perform and grow as an engineer.
  • Demonstrated technical initiative and a penchant for clean code.
  • Customer first approach to innovation in user experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and own scalable frontend applications.
  • Write clean code and perform code reviews.
  • Drive operational excellence and contribute to incident response.

Skills

Fluency in TypeScript/Javascript
Strong experience with Node.js
Strong experience with frontend frameworks, particularly Vue.js
Experience with CI/CD platforms
Experience working with AWS
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools

Education

8+ years of experience designing web applications

Tools

Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Elastic

Job description

GROW Inc Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Principal Software Engineer (Front-End)

GROW Inc Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Whether you’re working from home or on your way to the office, chances are you’re probably reading this because you’re seeking a new adventure, or you’re up for a new challenge. GROW Inc might just be that for you!

So, who is GROW Inc?

Founded in 2016, we’re the Australian FinTech success story solving big problems in the Superannuation and Managed Funds industry. The administration platforms (the software that tracks everything to do with your super) are built on things you or your parents would recognise from the glory days of 90’s computing.Our vision is to be the trusted, global leader in financial services technology creating simple and secure solutions our customers love.

How are we doing it?

We’re solving this by disrupting the wealth management industry with DLTA, our platform built on Distributed Ledger Technology which improves the financial wellbeing of Australians. We are giving people a brighter, more secure future. We’re making Super more timely and information more accessible whilst enabling wealth management companies to offer more cost effective solutions.

We’re rebels with a cause. We’re authentic, diverse, and embrace our differences as we continue to put a dent in the universe. We know diversity of thought helps us to build better solutions for our customers which is why we encourage the entire GROW team to bring their whole selves to work each and every day.



Whether you’re working from home or on your way to the office, chances are you’re probably reading this because you’re seeking a new adventure, or you’re up for a new challenge. GROW Inc might just be that for you!

So, who is GROW Inc?

Founded in 2016, we’re the Australian FinTech success story solving big problems in the Superannuation and Managed Funds industry. The administration platforms (the software that tracks everything to do with your super) are built on things you or your parents would recognise from the glory days of 90’s computing.Our vision is to be the trusted, global leader in financial services technology creating simple and secure solutions our customers love.

How are we doing it?

We’re solving this by disrupting the wealth management industry with DLTA, our platform built on Distributed Ledger Technology which improves the financial wellbeing of Australians. We are giving people a brighter, more secure future. We’re making Super more timely and information more accessible whilst enabling wealth management companies to offer more cost effective solutions.

We’re rebels with a cause. We’re authentic, diverse, and embrace our differences as we continue to put a dent in the universe. We know diversity of thought helps us to build better solutions for our customers which is why we encourage the entire GROW team to bring their whole selves to work each and every day.



Job Description

Engineering @ GROW Inc

We are passionate technologists with an appreciation for clean code and fault tolerant systems. Our team is distributed across Australia and the Philippines, with engineers collaborating across regions. We believe in leveraging different perspectives and backgrounds because that makes our team and product stronger.

We look for teammates who are:

  • Curious and aim to understand things deeply.

  • Advocates for best practice.

  • Respectful and inclusive.

  • Comfortable sharing the grunt work.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Principal Software Engineer (Front-End) you will:

  • Architect, build and own scalable frontend applications to improve user experiences.

  • Write clean code, perform code reviews, produce documentation and take the lead in solving complex technical challenges.

  • Build reusable frameworks, patterns and components that accelerate product development.

  • Champion high standards for code and platform health through automated regression, performance and resiliency testing.

  • Drive operational excellence by instrumenting observability, creating run books and contributing to incident response and resolution.

  • Lead technical discussions and architectural sparring sessions, driving the best technical outcome within time and budget constraints.

  • Contribute to strategic technical decisions and champion the adoption of best practices and new technologies.

  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve our software engineering practices.

  • Foster a culture of collaboration and knowledge across product, design and engineering.

  • Mentor less experienced engineers in best practice.

  • Help grow the engineering team through interviews and code reviews.



Qualifications

  • A customer first approach to innovation in user experiences.

  • A healthy curiosity, autonomy and a strong sense of accountability.

  • Strong desire to perform and grow as an engineer.

  • Demonstrated technical initiative and a penchant for clean code.

  • 8+ years of experience designing, building, deploying and scaling web applications.

  • Extensive knowledge of:

    • Building whitelabelled SaaS products.
    • Cloud architecture principles.

    • Modern frontend architectural patterns and frameworks.

    • Performance testing and optimisation of web applications.

  • Fluency in TypeScript/Javascript.

  • Strong experience with Node.js.

  • Strong experience with frontend frameworks, we use Vue.js.

  • Experience working with CI/CD platforms, we use BuildKite.

  • Experience working with AWS.

  • Experience working with containerisation tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.

  • Experience working with observability tools like Elastic.

  • Experience working with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.

If you think you have what it takes but don’t meet every point described above, please still apply! We’d love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

Additional Information

Why you’ll love working at GROW

  • ME Days - Take an additional 3 days of leave off per year for wellness!
  • Birthday Leave - Take an extra day off per year on your birthday!
  • Employee Share Option Program - our success is your success!
  • Parental Leave – we provide 10 weeks and support growing families by covering Superannuation contributions for the Primary Caregiver (regardless of gender)!
  • Community give back days - organised by us!
  • Learning & Development Budget - up to $500 per year to use on your own development!
  • Hybrid Work Arrangement - We have a true hybrid arrangement!
  • Exciting Discounts - Think movie tickets, gift cards & even electronics

Looking for a job can be stressful and we don’t want you agonising over the wording of your cover letter, so don’t include one. Just make sure your CV is well-written and detailed enough so we can get a better idea of the type of person you are. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, but you feel inspired to join our mission, we encourage you to send in your application. You never know, you could be the perfect person to join our team!

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