Senior Software Engineer - Backend (NodeJS)

Company Description

Lendi Group is a market-leading digital platform business focused on transforming the home loan industry. It operates the country’s #1 retail mortgage broker – the iconic Aussie Home Loans franchise – and the Australia’s #1 digital mortgage brand, Lendi.

Together, with its national network of 1,300 brokers and 230 retail stores, the Lendi Group brands give all Australians the power of choice, and confidence, in one of life’s biggest financial decisions.

Building on this market-leading foundation, Lendi Groups vision is to be the undisputed place for Australians to buy and own property through our new Aussie Homes propositions.

Lendi Group’s loan book is more than $100b and it was named Australia’s Aggregator of the Year for 2024

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion are fundamental to the success of Lendi Group. We’re passionate about fostering an environment where our team members feel valued and supported and we celebrate everyone’s unique identity.

To learn more about life at Lendi Group check out our blog: https://www.lendi.com.au/inspire/category/life-at-lendi/

About the role?

We’re looking for an enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer to be part of our Partner Product team.  

You will be reporting to the Partner Product Team Leader solving exciting and challenging product and engineering challenges and having fun alongside fun and experienced engineers who are motivated by producing value for Lendi Group’s customers. 

Job Description

• We value 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 with opportunities of impacting architecture and design, coding, deployment, and support. 
• Owning major parts of the system, designing and delivering robust and scalable solutions. 
• Actively practising a “you build it, you own it” mentality by supporting, debugging, monitoring the code you and your team built.  
• Developing clean, maintainable code that is suitable for continuous integration and deployment, following best practices and software guidelines. 
• Be a full-stack developer with back-end services in NodeJS and React front-ends. 
• Collaborating with Product Manager, Designers, BAs, and others as part of a cross-functional agile team. 
• Working with our Product and UX teams to imagine the visual and interaction patterns appropriate for our customers. 
• Communicating effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences both verbally and in written form. 
• Helping to drive the engineering rhythm and process of the team from planning, resource allocation, design, coding, deployment, and support.  
• Mentoring less experienced engineers in your team or other parts of engineering. 

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience. 
• Strong proficiency in Node.js (TypeScript) and associated backend technologies. 
• Strong API development skills, including RESTful services, schema-first design, Graphql, webhooks, and Auth (Auth0, JWT). 
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and messaging patterns (e.g., event-driven, request-response, pub/sub). 
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes. 
• Experience with AWS cloud services, particularly IAM, Lambda, DynamoDB, ECS, and SSM. 
• Experience with DevOps and IaC patterns and approaches 
• Nice to have: Experience with Kotlin and Python. 

Additional Information

Lendi Group teams operate across Australia and the Philippines. We’re committed to creating a new era of seamless connection in property finance by changing the way Australians experience property lending, for good.

A few of the benefits that our people rave about include:

• A vibrant, relaxed, yet professional culture
• Holistic wellbeing programs offering 24/7 support, including medical, mental health, and financial wellbeing services to enable our workforce to thrive at home and work
• Generous Paid Parental Leave: we celebrate our growing Lendi Group family with 18-26 weeks leave for primary carers and up to 4 weeks for secondary carers
• An additional week’s Loyalty Leave each year after reaching 3 years of service
• Wellness initiatives with a strong focus on psychological safety
• Social groups such as our industry-leading Women in Technology group.

Our culture is guided by our 3 core values: We Are Stronger United; Act Like You Own It; and Keep Home Loans Human. Our values are part of our core DNA that helps Lendi Group to attract, engage and evolve the right talent and build best-in-class products.

Feeling like you don’t meet all the skills listed? That’s ok; we are always on the lookout for different skills, experience, and qualities and so we’d still like to hear from you.

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