Senior Full Stack Engineer - 2 roles available! at Insignia Financial

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

Job summary

Insignia Financial is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join two on-site roles in Docklands, Melbourne. You will develop SPAs with React/TypeScript and build backend services in Node.js (Express/NestJS), while designing REST APIs and authentication patterns.

The role emphasizes collaboration in Agile teams, building scalable solutions, improving CI/CD and contributing to architectural decisions. Experience with AWS and Workato exposure is valued.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in web application and API development within a large-scale organisation.
• Strong React experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Hands-on Node.js backend development with Express, NestJS or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Build, test and deploy clean, reusable and well-documented software, owning delivery from inception to production.
• Develop SPAs and embedded React experiences using TypeScript, React and modern state management.
• Build backend services and integrations using Node.js technologies such as Express or NestJS.
• Design and work with REST APIs, authentication patterns and integrations, including Workato as an integration layer.
• Write unit, end-to-end and other required tests, using AI where it can improve speed and quality.
• Improve observability, resilience and production support across existing applications.
• Contribute to CI/CD workflows, technical documentation, story grooming and Scrum ceremonies.
• Partner with the Tech Lead, Product Owner, stakeholders and engineers to continuously improve the software development lifecycle.

Skills

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

HTML/CSS

Node.js

Express/NestJS

REST APIs

AWS

Git/GitHub Actions

Agile/Scrum

Communication

Education

Bachelor of Technology or equivalent

Tools

Express

NestJS

AWS

GitHub Actions

Job description

Senior Full Stack Engineer – 2 Roles Available at Insignia Financial

Location: Docklands, VIC, AU. Date: 10 Sept 2026. Employment type: Max Term Full Time.

Responsibilities

• Build, test and deploy clean, reusable and well-documented software, owning delivery from inception to production.
• Develop single-page applications and embedded React experiences using TypeScript, React and modern state management approaches.
• Build backend services and integrations using Node.js technologies such as Express or NestJS.
• Design and work with REST APIs, authentication patterns and integrations, including Workato as an integration layer.
• Write unit, end-to-end and other required tests, using AI where it can improve speed and quality.
• Improve observability, resilience and production support across existing applications.
• Contribute to CI/CD workflows, technical documentation, story grooming and Scrum ceremonies.
• Partner with the Tech Lead, Product Owner, stakeholders and engineers to continuously improve the software development lifecycle.

What You Bring to This Role

• Deep experience in web application and API development within a large-scale organisation.
• Strong React experience, ideally version 16 or later, with TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Hands-on Node.js backend development experience, ideally with Express, NestJS or an equivalent framework.
• Strong knowledge of single-page applications, state management, responsive design, mobile-first development and accessibility.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs and API authentication techniques.
• Experience with AWS services such as S3, API Gateway, Lambda, CloudFront, ECS and Secrets Manager.
• Experience with Git, ideally GitHub, and knowledge of GitHub Actions.
• Demonstrated experience working in Agile and Scrum environments.
• Clear communication, autonomy, critical thinking and a collaborative working style.
• Nice to have FinTech or other regulated-industry experience.
• Workato exposure.
• Elastic, search solutions or generative AI experience.
• Java Spring Boot experience.
• A Bachelor of Technology or equivalent.

About Insignia Financial

What gets us excited about working here? Helping people feel good about their money as one of Australia’s leading financial wellbeing organisations. From those starting out to those retiring. As your team, we’ll show up for you and together we will create financial wellbeing for every Australian. Because we know people who are confident about their financial future live better lives.

If this sounds like your kind of career, you sound like our kind of person. With us, you’ll do work that builds your technical know-how and challenges our entire industry to move forward. Along the way, you’ll be free to explore new ideas and technology, solve problems in a team, and independently to get great things done. Around here, we like to call it “putting our fingerprints on the future”. People-inspired tech Deep expertise combined with creativity can take on the trickiest of problems.

Join our team of brilliant minds and mentors as we explore our way to innovation and apply technology in more human ways than ever.

We acknowledge and celebrate the richness that individual differences bring to our team.

If you need assistance or an adjustment during the application process, please reach out and let us know.