Senior Java Engineer

Australian industry leading financial organisation, is building a technology-led yeam, with software engineering is at the heart of that work. They are hiring several Senior Java Engineers across three product areas. Each team works on modern cloud platforms with a high degree of engineering autonomy.
 
The opportunities

• API & Partner Connectivity: Build and run the secure, consent-driven API layer that lets third-party platforms (accounting, payments, financial planning and business software) connect to banking services. This team is also exploring agentic AI integrations. It suits a backend engineer who enjoys DevOps and platform reliability.
• Digital Banking Products: Design, build and ship the customer-facing digital banking products that customers use every day. It suits a hands-on senior engineer who enjoys system design, code quality and trying new technology through POCs.
• Property Services Platform (Feature Lead): Take technical leadership of a B2B property operations platform across Java/Spring Boot services and an Angular frontend. You'll lead solution architecture, mentor engineers and drive the team's adoption of AI-assisted engineering. It suits a senior full-stack engineer who is ready to lead.

What you'll bring

• Strong hands-on experience with Java (17+, ideally 21) and Spring Boot microservices
• Experience building cloud-native, distributed systems on GCP, AWS or Azure
• Solid grounding in microservices and SOA patterns, containerisation and CI/CD
• Experience with event-driven architecture, such as Pub/Sub or Kafka
• A strong testing mindset across unit, integration and performance testing
• Experience with relational and cloud-native databases in high-throughput environments
• A history of building performant, resilient, observable and maintainable software
• Clear communication and the ability to work with engineers, product and business stakeholders

Highly regarded (depending on role)

• Production support experience: incident analysis, monitoring, alerting and resilience improvements
• Leading systems design and architecture decisions, or acting as a Feature Lead
• Angular and modern frontend architecture
• Hands-on use of AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Copilot, Gemini CLI), and an interest in helping teams adopt them
• Mentoring engineers and helping to lift technical capability

What's on offer

• Competitive salary and permanent employment with a major financial institution
• Hybrid and flexible working
• Generous leave, including wellbeing, volunteer and extended parental leave
• Strong investment in learning and development
• Salary packaging and a wide range of wellbeing benefits
• An autonomous engineering culture that gives you room to do things properly