Lendi Hiring for Software Engineer (Back – End) Job at Sydney, Australia Full Time

Got a passion for microservices and cutting edge tech? Do you have an interest in building simple systems that solve complex problems while continuously improving the developer experience? Want to collaborate with highly-skilled technical teams in a growing business as part of a cross-functional team?

Lendi is Australia’s #1 home loan platform and we’re building technology to take the hard work out of home loans. We’re passionate about how technology can revolutionise our industry and solve a key pain point in peoples’ lives.

Lendi is looking for an experienced Backend Software Engineer to be part of one of our product teams. In an ever-changing regulatory environment, Lendi is leading the charge in developing industry-first technology designed to offer Australian homeowners transparency, simplicity and convenience in their home loan experience.

Engineering is forefront in this charge as we look to automate and build out scalable and reliable systems to support our customers and counterparty banks.

What you’ll be doing:

We appreciate evidence-backed opinions and as a valued member of our engineering team, you will have the opportunity to play an integral part in influencing the engineering team’s rhythm, culture and processes which could positively impact architecture and design, coding, deployment, and support.

• Working in a team that owns integral parts of the system, designing and delivering quality stable solutions
• Owning services end-to-end from requirements to design, development and deployment and support

• Working with our Product/UX team to imagine the visual and interaction patterns appropriate for our customers

• Building robust, fault tolerant, and scalable software as a key member of the Acquire cross-functional team
• Writing clean code that can be continuously deployed, monitored, and maintained
• Helping to drive the engineering rhythm and process of the team from planning, design, coding, deployment, through to support
• Continuously improving your skills and helping the team continuously improve its processes
• Collaborating as part of an agile team
• Taking ownership of the systems you and your team build, which means supporting debugging, monitoring, and alerting in production

What you’ll bring:

• 3+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer building and running distributed applications and services.
• Experience in NodeJS (we use Typescript) and associated technologies
• Experience developing RESTful Services and the ability to align API contracts with other teams
• Experience having worked productively as part of an agile team
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with your team, manager, and stakeholders
• Proficient understanding of Git and source code management tools such as Bitbucket or GitHub
• Desire to learn and work using TDD approach and writing automated tests such as unit, integration, performance, and other

It would be great to bring, but is not required to have:

• Understanding of event-driven systems such as Kafka
• Experience in containerization technologies such as Docker
• Frontend knowledge about recent SPA frameworks such as React, Vue or Angular
• Knowledge of Banking and/or mortgages.

Benefits and perks:

• ‘Flex First’ – flexibility of remote working (home and/or office)
• We take Career development seriously. We have the opportunities, budget and frameworks in place to propel your career in the direction you want to take it
• A week’s additional annual leave after 3 years’ service
• ‘Awesome Days’ – an extra day’s leave a year to do something awesome!
• Regular social and team building activities

Lendi is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company.