Description

Role Responsibilities

• Co-leading engineering at Betashares Direct, with a specific focus on owning and delivering the core platform strategy and managing the core platform team.
• Become a member of Betashares Direct senior leadership team
• Proactively and jointly guide the technology direction and strategy for Betashares Direct as well as the integration of Direct with Betashares Super and other product initiatives.
• Overall joint responsibility for engineering and technology team structure, development, growth and capacity both on and offshore
• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performance engineering and technology team
• Work closely with other business divisions (e.g. Product & Design, Super, Support, Operations, Management) to align technology with business objectives
• Develop a technology capacity to unlock a high-cadence, albeit risk aware, feature and product development function.
• Ensure that Betashares technology stack is scalable, secure and able to handle exponential growth
• Ensure that the applications built are secure and protect customer information.
• Ownership of core platform technology decisions, including staying abreast of emerging and best practice technologies to maintain a competitive advantage
• Review existing technology, engineering processes and team structure and recommend and execute on changes/improvements as required
• Co-manage the technology budget, ensuring efficient and cost effective use of resources
• Assist and execute inorganic growth strategies, including technology due diligence, security audits, integration planning and roadmap integration, team integration and risk management
• Communicate technology strategies and progress to internal and external stakeholders
• Help to build Betashares’ reputation as a technology leader externally, as well as a great reputation for creating financial products with great customer experiences.
• Assist the team in creating new & innovative products, and embolden an innovative culture with the team.
• Assist with inorganic growth pre and post transaction

Skills & Experience

• Proven track record of building, releasing, and supporting complex, performant, back-end service applications in production
• 8+ years hands-on experience developing backend services and infrastructure.
• Experience architecting applications in cloud-based environments (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Exposure to architecture patterns such as event driven and microservices.
• Exposure to Golang or Rust is beneficial.
• Exposure to container orchestration services such as Kubernetes or AWS Fargate is highly desirable.
• Exposure to accounting/financial services is beneficial
• CI/CD Expertise: Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines and practices to enable high-cadence deployments.
• Monitoring and Observability: Proficiency in tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Data Dog, or similar for system performance and health monitoring.
• Data Engineering Experience: Familiarity with data pipelines, ETL processes, and working with tools like Airflow, Kafka, or similar.
• API Design: Experience designing and maintaining secure, scalable, and performant RESTful or Graph QL APIs.
• Front-End Awareness: While this role is backend-focused, exposure to front-end frameworks and tools could aid cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience managing budgets
• Experience working within the Fin Tech industry & having worked in a startup is beneficial
• Experience in building and managing high-performance teams

Reasons To Join Us

• Continuous career development and training opportunities
• Access to a health and wellbeing platform with physical, mental, social and financial support programs available.
• Volunteering days off, so you can contribute to a cause that matters to you.
• Conveniently located CBD offices with fully stocked kitchens, team breakfasts and catered lunches on a regular basis.
• Fun and inclusive social events.

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