Hybrid Mid-Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

at LEAP Wealth

• Job title: Mid-Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cypress, MySQL, Postgres, React, SQL, Svelte, TypeScript, .NET
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sydney, Australia

About the role

• Full Stack Developer building full-stack applications for family lawyers at LEAP. Taking ownership of product development from prototypes to production in a hybrid workspace.

Responsibilities

• You'll join a team of Full-Stack Developers who take full ownership of their products. In this role you’ll lead the build of new full-stack application for family lawyers, taking it from early prototypes to production.
• Working closely with in-house lawyers, product, client operations, and beyond, you’ll turn real practitioner workflows into simple, secure, high-performing web experiences. The work you'll do initially will be 50% frontend and 50% backend (.NET).
• Take ownership of the planning, design, implementation, and support of a new Family Law application.
• Work closely with our Directors and Managers to understand project requirements and translate them into actionable development tasks. You'll act as a bridge between product vision and technical implementation, providing insights and recommendations where necessary.
• Identify technical challenges and devise innovative solutions to overcome them, leveraging your autonomy and expertise to drive the prototyping process forward.
• Design and develop high-quality, responsive UI using TypeScript (React or Svelte), ensuring a seamless and engaging user experience.
• Improve the architecture of front-end components, optimising code for performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Work closely with UX designers and in-house lawyers to iterate on flows and prototypes.
• Take ownership of front-end components, driving the technical direction and setting coding standards.
• Participate in agile methodologies such as stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives.

Requirements

• Frontend: TypeScript + React or Svelte
• Backend: C#/.NET + AWS
• Experience working with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and writing SQL.
• Experience consuming external APIs.
• Familiarity with version control systems and collaborative development workflows.
• Experience with automated testing (eg. xUnit, nUnit, Cypress, Playwright etc...)
• Experience working with sensitive client data.
• Consider it a bonus if you: Have experience working in a start-up or greenfield environment; and some experience with web scraping / data ingestion workflows (within legal and ethical constraints).

Benefits

• Flexible and hybrid working. We'd like to find this person in Sydney, but we want you to work in a way that suits you and we're open to flexible arrangements that support you.
• Grow your career with us. Our founder Christian Beck has been building legal tech businesses for over 30 years. There are opportunities galore to expand your career based on where your interests lie. We're not afraid to pivot based on market conditions - you will always have the opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and do your best work here.
• Have fun with us. Celebrations. Socials. Sports teams. Access to sailing and yacht events.
• We value your well-being - enjoy an additional paid wellbeing day every year, free gym membership, corporate dental plan and weekly massages in the office.
• Work in a new, beautiful office space – with a catered lunch and breakfast every week, fully stocked kitchen and an on-site barista.
• Access to LEAP Home - a program unique to LEAP to support you in buying your primary residence.