Senior Software Engineer - Lead Design & Mentorship (12m)

Insignia Financial; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insignia Financial is scaling its Wrap platform and seeking a Senior Software Engineer on a 12-month contract to drive technical delivery and mentoring within the team.

You will lead solution design, deliver complex features, contribute to architecture decisions, and help evolve engineering practices across the platform while working with stakeholders to solve challenging problems.

We value automation, TDD, and modern frontend/backend stacks including Java, Kotlin, React, and Dro...

Qualifications

• 5+ years of development experience.
• Advanced knowledge of engineering practices including TDD, pair programming, and systems thinking.
• Strong experience with Java, Kotlin and React.
• Experience designing and building scalable, maintainable systems.
• Exposure to NoSQL databases (MongoDB).
• Strong stakeholder engagement and problem solving.
• Experience mentoring or leading engineers.

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

Tools

MongoDB

MySQL

Elasticsearch

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Docker

Job description

Insignia Financial is scaling its Wrap platform and seeking a Senior Software Engineer on a 12-month contract to drive technical delivery and mentoring within the team.

You will lead solution design, deliver complex features, contribute to architecture decisions, and help evolve engineering practices across the platform while working with stakeholders to solve challenging problems.

We value automation, TDD, and modern frontend/backend stacks including Java, Kotlin, React, and Dro...