Senior Engineer

Iress; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

8 extra paid days per year

Hybrid working

Parental leave up to 26 weeks

Referral bonus

Learning & development via LinkedIn

Job summary

Iress Wealth unit is seeking a Senior Engineer to drive the full software engineering lifecycle for our flagship Xplan product. You will deliver robust, scalable software across backend and frontend, focusing on Python and C++, with React for UI. You will mentor colleagues and champion reliable, secure solutions.

The role offers hybrid work in Australia, opportunities to influence product direction, and a collaborative, evolving tech culture within a market-leading platform.

Qualifications

• Experience in Python or C++, with willingness to learn the other.
• Contribute to full product engineering lifecycle from inception to deployment and production support.
• Strong focus on code quality, security and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Produce high-quality, robust software across code and tests.
• Automate testing and ensure quality is built-in.
• Mentor junior engineers and collaborate across teams to deliver scalable solutions.
• Lead design conversations for features and non-functional outcomes.

Skills

Python

C++

React

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Testing mindset

Tools

Buildkite

GitHub

Job description

See yourself being part of a large, transformational change? This could be the role for you! At Iress, we make things happen 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. 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.

Build your career at Iress! Are you looking to take your engineering career to the next level? Join the Iress Wealth business unit as a Senior Engineer, where you will play a pivotal role in the ongoing success and evolution of our flagship Xplan product. This role is responsible for delivering across the full product engineering lifecycle from inception through to deployment and production support. As a Senior Engineer, you will combine your technical proficiency in software, data, security, and reliability with a deep understanding of the Wealth domain. You will have the opportunity to drive meaningful impact, mentor talented team members, and champion best practices that ensure we continue to deliver high-quality, resilient solutions for our clients.

If you are an experienced engineer who thrives on solving complex challenges and wants to contribute to a market-leading platform, this is the perfect opportunity to build your career at Iress.

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 ensures quality is 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 they are not the 'primary' engineer and resolves issues quickly and effectively.
• Contributes positively to the team, provides 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.
• Will mentor/coach more junior engineers, and take feedback or seek 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.
• Provides mentoring to less-experienced engineers, ensuring an uplift in the quality of new code or changes to existing code.
• Contributes to, or leads in the design of features and non-functional outcomes within the software.
• Leads the removal of any manual work existing or introduced by automating in line with other teams, or by leveraging strategic tooling or methods.
• Ensures leverage and scale is gained by working cross-functionally and cross-team.
• Uses or contributes to platform services.
• Ensures software security is appropriate and remediates efficiently if inadequacies arise.

What you will bring

• Tech Stack: Python, C++, React (focus on Python & C++ for backend; frontend with React).
• Experience in at least one core language (Python or C++), with a willingness to learn the other.
• Ability to work across multiple products and APIs.
• Testing mindset: Engineers are responsible for quality assurance and automated testing.
• Familiarity with CI/CD (e.g., Buildkite, GitHub) and Agile methodologies (2-week sprints, Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience in application architecture, clean code principles, and designing for scale.
• Strong collaborative skills, navigating ambiguity, and contributing to effective team outcomes.
• Growth mindset, with a drive to mentor others and tackle complex technical challenges.

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.

Employment Type Employee Time Type Full time