Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

Whether you’re working from home or on your way to the office, chances are you’re probably reading this because you’re seeking a new adventure, or you’re up for a new challenge. GROW Inc might just be that for you!

So, who is GROW Inc?

Founded in 2016, we’re the Australian FinTech success story solving major problems in the Superannuation and Managed Funds industries. The administration platforms (the software that tracks everything to do with your super and investments) that you see today are built on things you or your parents would recognise from the glory days of 90’s computing - we're revamping the way this is done through modern, powerful technology to create a better experience for you and every other Australian.

How are we doing it?

We’re solving this by disrupting the wealth management industry with DLTA, our platform built on Distributed Ledger Technology. We’re making super and investments more timely and making the information more accessible whilst enabling wealth management companies to offer more cost effective solutions: all with the goal of improving the financial wellbeing of all Australians.

Now with over 1 million Australians using our technology every day, we're ramping up as we build new products and enter new industries, and we're looking for talented, driven people (just like yourself!) to join us.

We’re rebels with a cause. We’re authentic, diverse, and we embrace our differences as we continue to put a dent in the universe. We know diversity of thought helps us to build better solutions for our customers which is why we encourage the entire GROW team to bring their whole selves to work each and every day.

Please note that this role will initially start as a 6 month fixed-term contract.

As a Senior Software Engineer at GROW, you will:

Design, build and own APIs and event driven services to be used as building blocks to enhance and scale our superannuation administration platform.

Write clean code, perform code reviews, produce documentation and take the lead in solving complex technical challenges.

Build reusable frameworks, patterns and components that accelerate product development.

Champion high standards for code and platform health through automated regression, performance and resiliency testing.

Drive operational excellence by instrumenting observability, creating run books and contributing to incident response and resolution.

Lead technical discussions and architectural sparring sessions, driving the best technical outcome within time and budget constraints.

Contribute to strategic technical decisions and champion the adoption of best practices and new technologies.

Proactively identify opportunities to improve our software engineering practices.

Foster a culture of collaboration and knowledge across product, design and engineering.

Mentor less experienced engineers in best practice.

Help grow the engineering team through interviews and code reviews

What you will bring

A healthy curiosity, autonomy and a strong sense of accountability.

Strong desire to perform and grow as an engineer.

Demonstrated technical initiative and a penchant for clean code.

6+ years of experience designing, building, deploying and scaling web applications.

Extensive knowledge of:

Cloud architecture principles (load balancing, high availability, server-based and serverless architecture, database configurations)

Microservices patterns and principles (Event Driven, Service Mesh, API Gateways)

Defensive programming principles (circuit breakers, resiliency frameworks, fault tolerance, self-healing mechanisms)

Fluency in at least one modern programming language – we use Kotlin and related frameworks.

Experience working with event brokers like Kafka.

Experience working with Linux, Docker and Kubernetes.

Experience working with CI/CD platforms, we use BuildKite.

Experience working with AWS.

Experience working with observability tools like Elastic.

Experience working with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.

Why you’ll love working at GROW

ME Days - Take an additional 3 days of leave off per year for wellness!

Birthday Leave - Take an extra day off per year on your birthday!

Employee Share Option Program - our success is your success!

Parental Leave – we provide 10 weeks and support growing families by covering Superannuation contributions for the Primary Caregiver (regardless of gender)!

Community give back days - organised by us!

Learning \& Development Budget - up to $500 per year to use on your own development!

Hybrid Work Arrangement - We have a true hybrid arrangement!

Exciting Discounts - Think movie tickets, gift cards \& even electronics

Looking for a job can be stressful and we don’t want you agonising over the wording of your cover letter, so don’t include one. Just make sure your CV is well-written and detailed enough so we can get a better idea of the type of person you are. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, but you feel inspired to join our mission, we encourage you to send in your application. You never know, you could be the perfect person to join our team!

We are a Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant