At a Glance
- Tasks: Architect and build scalable front-end applications to enhance user experiences.
- Company: Join GROW Inc, a leading Australian FinTech innovator.
- Benefits: Enjoy wellness days, birthday leave, and a learning budget.
- Other info: Embrace a diverse culture and enjoy hybrid work flexibility.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the financial tech space with cutting-edge solutions.
- Qualifications: 8+ years in web application development with strong TypeScript and Node.js skills.
The predicted salary is between 162296 - 195248 $ per year.
GROW Inc is the Australian FinTech success story solving big problems in the Superannuation and Managed Funds industry. Our vision is to be the trusted, global leader in financial services technology creating simple and secure solutions our customers love.
We’re disrupting the wealth management industry with DLTA, our platform built on Distributed Ledger Technology which improves the financial wellbeing of Australians. We are giving people a brighter, more secure future by making Super more timely and information more accessible whilst enabling wealth management companies to offer more cost-effective solutions.
Engineering @ GROW Inc
We are passionate technologists with an appreciation for clean code and fault-tolerant systems. Our team is distributed across Australia and the Philippines, with engineers collaborating across regions. We believe in leveraging different perspectives and backgrounds because that makes our team and product stronger.
We look for teammates who are:
- Curious and aim to understand things deeply.
- Advocates for best practice.
- Respectful and inclusive.
- Comfortable sharing the grunt work.
Key Responsibilities:
As a Principal Software Engineer (Front-End) you will:
- Architect, build and own scalable frontend applications to improve user experiences.
- 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.
Qualifications:
- A customer first approach to innovation in user experiences.
- 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.
- 8+ years of experience designing, building, deploying and scaling web applications.
- Extensive knowledge of building whitelabelled SaaS products.
- Cloud architecture principles.
- Modern frontend architectural patterns and frameworks.
- Performance testing and optimisation of web applications.
- Fluency in TypeScript/Javascript.
- Strong experience with Node.js.
- Strong experience with frontend frameworks, we use Vue.js.
- Experience working with CI/CD platforms, we use BuildKite.
- Experience working with AWS.
- Experience working with containerisation tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience working with observability tools like Elastic.
- Experience working with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
If you think you have what it takes but don’t meet every point described above, please still apply! We’d love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.
Additional Information:
- 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.
We are a Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.
Principal Software Engineer (Front-End) in Sydney employer: GROW Inc.
GROW Inc is an exceptional employer that prioritises employee well-being and professional growth within the dynamic financial services sector. With a hybrid working model, employees enjoy flexibility while engaging in meaningful work that directly impacts member experiences. The supportive work culture fosters collaboration and innovation, providing ample opportunities for career advancement and the chance to influence policy in a vital area of superannuation.
