OFX Hiring for Principal Software Engineer- Frontend (Open to remote locations across Australia) Job at Sydney, Australia Full Time

Hi. We’re OFX, a global provider of online, international payment services. We solve the complexity of moving money and enable better decisions. Headquartered in Sydney with offices worldwide, we’re a customer-focused business that is all about inspiring customer confidence.

At OFX, you’ll have the opportunity to reach beyond your role and function across disciplines. Make use of your diverse skill set at a business that values your expertise and turn your potential into reality.

We are currently looking for a Principal Software Engineer who will be responsible for delivering high-quality software in a timely manner while leading and working with the engineers to design solutions as appropriate. Working in an agile environment, you will provide technical leadership, expertise, and guidance to the teams in delivering quality software. You will evaluate and make recommendations around the use of technologies and tools, influence other principals, engineering managers and their technical teams to build the right systems that can scale to the needs of the business.

On a day-to-day basis, the Principal Software Engineer will actively help with lead the continuous improvement of our technical delivery and architecture while contributing to discussions of technical direction. In this role, you will also mentor other engineers, establish best engineering practices, and lead cross-team projects. Where required, the Principal Software Engineer will take on the technical leadership of a piece of work by performing the function of a technical lead on an initiative.

What you’ll be doing:

• Work with the engineers and security analysts, to help improve our coding practices while delivering code and participating in code reviews
• Ensure code is efficient and adheres to OFX coding standards and guidelines and industry best practices
• Identify complex areas of code that require refactoring and technical debt and ensure these are addressed as appropriate
• Actively contribute and improve the engineering standards
• Be able to engage successfully with other members of the team including UX, QA, business analysts and product owners
• Actively provide appropriate leadership as part of the capability engineering unit including mentorship and coaching
• Work collaboratively within the agile teams to deliver initiatives. Owning stories to ensure they meet all functional and non-functional acceptance criteria
• Contribute to solution design in line with our overall technical roadmap and industry best practice
• Work with the principals and technical leads to drive design of our products and solutions, and with the engineering manager and other principal engineers to create solutions and conduct spikes when required

What you’ll bring:

• Extensive experience in frontend technologies, preferably with a focus on React and Typescript.
• Ability to refactor complex, monolithic systems into scalable, resilient components to help teams scale
• Extensive technical leadership experience and understanding of cloud-native application architectures (we use AWS).
• Experience with architectural design patterns and data modelling and design.
• Experience operating services on serverless or containerized environments.
• Ability to advocate for and help design automated processes and tooling that ensures products teams delivery are correct, secure, and safe to deploy.
• Excellent understanding of Agile development methodology and development practices such as Scrum, Kanban etc.,
• Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines

Desirable Experience:

• Experience with React Native and mobile development
• Experience architecting micro-frontends is a big advantage

Additional Information

What it’s like working at OFX

We’re OFXers because we want to make a difference. We see challenges as opportunities and we’re not afraid to roll up our sleeves to get stuff done. We’re committed to making things easier for our clients, pushing boundaries and continuing to move with the times so that we can continue to inspire confidence every day and through every transaction.

We operate as one team, cross-functionally and globally to drive outcomes that deliver excellence for our customers. We’re curious self-starters who love learning and sharing our knowledge with others. We embrace change and use our initiative and resilience to overcome challenges.

• Always keep learning. We offer LinkedIn learning programs, which all OFXers have access to. We offer a variety of other learning programs and host an annual Open Day to encourage cross functional and soft skill learning
• Giving back, we encourage OFXers to give back to causes and communities that are important to them. We celebrate this with an annual volunteer day, that OFXers can use together or individually
• We promote an environment of reward and recognition, OFXers are encouraged to celebrate their peers’ effort, technical expertise or support through a range of channels and awards
• Our Good Vibes employee-led committees organize events to keep our employees engaged inside and outside the office. Whether it’s participating in our weekly yoga class (now also on Zoom), office happy hours, end of year celebrations. Our team wants you to feel welcome!