Senior Software Engineer

Insignia Financial; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insignia Financial is scaling its Wrap platform with a 12‑month contract for a Senior Software Engineer. You will lead technical delivery, design solutions, mentor engineers, and influence architecture while engaging with stakeholders across the platform.

You will work with Java, Kotlin, React, and microservice patterns, using MongoDB and MySQL, with Docker-based deployments, and an emphasis on agile practices and continuous improvement across teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years development experience.
• Strong experience in agile delivery environments.
• Advanced knowledge of engineering practices including TDD, pair programming, and systems thinking.
• Strong experience with Java and modern languages such as Kotlin and React.
• Experience designing and building scalable, maintainable systems.
• Exposure to NoSQL and Mongo databases.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and problem solving capability.
• Experience mentoring or leading engineers within a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design and technical direction within your delivery team.
• Deliver high quality features and enhancements to the platform.
• Mentor and coach engineers to support their development and performance.
• Contribute to system design and architecture decisions.
• Promote continuous improvement across engineering practices.
• Work with stakeholders to understand and solve complex problems.
• Apply automation to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to delivery planning.
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, quality, and release processes.
• Support testing, documentation, and ongoing system maintenance.

Skills

5+ years development

Agile delivery

TDD

Pair programming

Systems thinking

Java

Kotlin

React

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Docker

MongoDB

MySQL

Elasticsearch

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Dropwizard

React

Job description

The opportunity to join our team

At Insignia Financial, we are continuing to scale and modernise our Wrap platform, and this is a 12 month contract with the potential to extend. This role plays a key part in driving both technical delivery and engineering capability. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead solution design within your team, deliver complex features, and mentor engineers while influencing how solutions are designed and delivered across the platform.

Role

In this role you will lead technical delivery within your team while contributing to broader engineering outcomes. Key focuses of this role include:

• Lead solution design and technical direction within your delivery team
• Deliver high quality features and enhancements to the platform
• Mentor and coach engineers to support their development and performance
• Contribute to system design and architecture decisions
• Promote continuous improvement across engineering practices
• Work with stakeholders to understand and solve complex problems
• Apply automation to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort
• Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to delivery planning
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, quality, and release processes
• Support testing, documentation, and ongoing system maintenance

A taste of our tech stack

• Microfrontends built in JavaScript (ES6) using React and Redux.
• Kotlin, Java, Groovy
• Dropwizard based microservices built in Kotlin, Java and Groovy
• Data stored in MongoDB and MySQL
• Other tools to help get the job done include Elasticsearch, Kafka and RabbitMQ
• Containerized deployments with Docker
• Ever changing and constantly evolving

What You Bring To This Role

• 5+ years development experience
• Strong experience working in agile delivery environments
• Advanced knowledge of engineering practices including TDD, pair programming, and systems thinking
• Strong experience with Java and modern development languages such as Kotlin and React
• Experience designing and building scalable, maintainable systems
• Exposure to NoSQL and Mongo databases
• Strong stakeholder engagement and problem solving capability
• Experience mentoring or leading engineers within a team

A Little About The Team

Software development at Insignia Financial is not like your typical enterprise company. Our engineering culture is rooted in agile values, a rare thing for companies of our breed. Some of the highlights of our culture include:

• We hire talented people and get out of their way
• Our agile teams are cross functional and self-organising
• We have minimal hierarchy and organisational red tape
• We encourage and promote grass roots leadership from within our teams
• Continuous improvement is our focus
• We favour collaboration over rigid process

Find the better way

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.

Application Information

Applicants will be required to provide evidence of their eligibility to work in Australia, and at a minimum be required to undertake police and basic credit checks as a condition of employment.

Please note that applications from agencies will not be considered at this time.

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.