Lead Software Engineer - Online Banking

Location: Must be based in Sydney, Australia; hybrid work with both office and home working. Participation in an on-call roster is required.

Company

hirify.global is a specialist food and agribusiness bank whose Australian and New Zealand Technology team delivers secure, reliable, and scalable technology for employees and customers.

What you will do

• Lead technical delivery across online banking applications, REST APIs, and microservices.
• Design, develop, test, debug, and remediate maintainable engineering solutions from architecture and business requirements.
• Provide technical direction, conduct design and code reviews, and coach engineers without formal people-management responsibility.
• Champion clean code, automated testing, CI/CD, secure engineering, and Azure DevOps deployment and release readiness.
• Design for performance, scalability, security, resilience, accessibility, and observability while addressing technical debt and dependencies.
• Support business-critical production services through incident investigation, root cause analysis, priority issue resolution, and on-call participation.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years at Senior or Lead level.
• Strong commercial experience with React and Java Spring Boot.
• Experience with REST APIs, microservices, Kafka, and event-driven architecture.
• Strong CI/CD, Azure DevOps, and cloud deployment experience.
• Knowledge of secure coding, SAST, vulnerability management, and dependency management.
• Experience supporting business-critical applications in production.
• Experience using modern AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot for development, testing, debugging, refactoring, and documentation.
• Understanding of modern AI engineering concepts, including LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, agentic workflows, evaluation, and responsible AI.
• Ability to coach engineers and lead technical delivery without formal people-management responsibility.
• Working rights in Australia are required.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working between a refurbished CBD office and home.
• Wellbeing leave, up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave, and additional annual leave options.
• Education Assistance Program and opportunities to support professional growth.
• Employer-funded death, TPD, and income protection insurance, plus health insurance discounts.
• Matched charitable donations, annual wardrobe or equipment allowance, flu shot, and gym passport discount.
• Inclusive environment guided by the values Client Driven, Responsible, Professional, and Cooperative.

Hiring process

• Submit an application with a CV and required application details, including Australian working rights, remuneration expectations, and connections to hirify.global.
• Applications are reviewed before one or more online interviews; an assignment or assessment may be requested for some positions.
• Successful candidates receive an offer followed by legal screening before starting.