Hybrid Senior Engineer

at Iress

• Job title: Senior Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Microservices, Python, Rust, SDLC, SQL, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Melbourne, Australia

About the role

• Senior Engineer joining Product Engineering team at Iress, focusing on building and evolving critical financial systems. Collaborating with a high-performing backend engineering team to enhance software performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and delivering high-quality, resilient software with a strong focus on performance, scalability and security
• Contributing across the full SDLC including requirements gathering, solution design, development, deployment and ongoing support
• Developing and maintaining cloud-based microservices and supporting migrations from on-prem to cloud environments
• Supporting production systems, including troubleshooting and resolving issues quickly and effectively
• Collaborating closely with Product, SRE, Security and Support teams to deliver reliable and scalable solutions
• Driving engineering best practices, including automation, clean code principles and continuous improvement
• Mentoring and supporting team members, contributing to a strong, collaborative engineering culture
• Identifying risks, dependencies and opportunities for improvement across systems and processes

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience, with a focus on scalable and maintainable application architecture
• Experience designing and building microservices and working with cloud platforms (AWS preferred – Aurora, SQS, ECS, EKS, Fargate)
• Solid DevOps capability, including CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Buildkite, GoCD or Terraform
• Strong programming experience in languages such as Python, C#, Rust or SQL
• Experience working with large-scale data systems, including SQL databases and streaming technologies
• Exposure to observability tools (e.g. OpenTelemetry, Datadog) and a strong approach to troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Experience with API development (RESTful and/or streaming)
• Understanding of software design principles (e.g. SOLID) and clean architecture practices
• Experience working in agile, collaborative engineering teams
• Bonus: Exposure to C++ or willingness to learn to support legacy/on-prem systems

Benefits

• 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