Senior Software Engineer: Lead Design and Mentorship

Insignia Financial; City of Hobart; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Insignia Financial is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Hobart for a 12-month contract to lead solution design, deliver complex features and mentor engineers while shaping engineering practices across the platform.

You will drive technical delivery within your team, contribute to architecture decisions and promote continuous improvement, while collaborating with stakeholders to solve complex problems and implement automation.

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/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

NoSQL, Mongo

Stakeholder engagement

Mentoring/leading engineers

Tools

Docker

Dropwizard

Kafka

Elasticsearch

RabbitMQ

MongoDB

MySQL

React

Kotlin

Java

Groovy

Job description

Insignia Financial is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Hobart for a 12-month contract to lead solution design, deliver complex features and mentor engineers while shaping engineering practices across the platform.

You will drive technical delivery within your team, contribute to architecture decisions and promote continuous improvement, while collaborating with stakeholders to solve complex problems and implement automation.