Digital Software Engineer
ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets
Why join the ASX?
When you join ASX, you’re joining a company with a strong purpose – to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.
In your new role, you’ll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.
Want to know why we are a great place to work, click on the link to learn more.
www.asx.com.au/about/careers/a-great-place-to-work
We are more than a securities exchange!
The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines.
We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.
We’re proud of the diversity of our organisation and the culture of inclusion that all our people help to build every day. Our employee-led groups are known for celebrating cultural and religious events, championing LGBTIQ+ inclusion (recently achieving AWEI Bronze), inspiring giving and volunteering, promoting gender equality, and wellbeing. We are an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (WGEA) and a member of the Champions of Change Coalition for the advancement of gender equality in Australia.
A great opportunity to join an organisation at the heart of Australia’s financial markets, and to make a difference to the growth and prosperity of the Australian economy by contributing to the construction and delivery of the ASX multi-year digital transformation programme.
Working in the Customer& Digital line of business you will be a key resource in the delivery of a significant programme of work to refresh, consolidate and re-think all of the ASX digital properties.
You will be working with some of the latest contemporary technology, with the focus on delivering a cloud based digital services platform, based on a microservice, event driven architecture.
What You'll Do:
The role is part of a team of skilled, multi-disciplinary digital engineers focused on the delivery of digital solutions in support of the digital transformation programme. This team is responsible for production support + build and run functions across the digital portfolio. The role involves solution development, engineering processes and tooling. Specifically you will:
Perform design and development of software solutions within the digital engineering team
Develop operational and system support tools including documentation to enable effective maintenance and support of applications
Contribute to the health of the code base by conducting effective code and process reviews
Apply agile frameworks, techniques and processes to deliver incremental value
Provide estimates and contribute to sizing of continuous improvement backlog
Solution Design
Contribute to the design of digital solutions across the portfolio
Work with architecture and solution engineering to define technical options and agree solutions, in line with the digital roadmap and architectural guidelines
Share design skills across the organisation
Quality & Best Practice
Perform the design and development of software solutions according to the Engineering Processes and Standards, with the goal of providing reliable, stable and operationally sound applications that meet business requirements
Consistently apply tools, standards, methods and processes in developing and supporting solutions to ensure that quality applications are developed with consistent maintainable code which supports risk and compliance management
Review code to deliver quality driven, robust and production ready code that is compliant and secure
Apply a continuous improvement mindset to standards, methods and processes
What You'll Need:
Proven experience in microservice and API development using event driven architecture covering aspects such as service segregation, API modelling and versioning.
Minimum 3-5 years as a Java engineer, preferably within a digital team, with experience across tools and frameworks such as JAVA, Springboot, JPA, Messaging, GraphQL, React
A good understanding of CI/CD tooling and DevOps processes, Google Cloud / AWS Build would be great.
A good understanding of security principles with exposure to Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Sound knowledge of system analysis methodologies and tools
Experienced in both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies and ways of working
Familiarity with application support procedures
Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, resilient, great attention to detail
Passion for excellence and a continuous improvement mindset
Be a change agent who embraces and champions new ideas
And if you have some of this even better!
Experience in / with these tools / technologies / methodologies would be an advantage:
Kubernetes, GKE and other cloud technologies (AWS/GCP)
Experience with monitoring and alerting tools i.e. ELK
Integration technologies and toolsets such as Apache Kafka, Tibco ESB or similar
Experience or exposure to Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Salesforce/CRM, ForgeRock Identity and Access Management (IAM) or Marketing technologies and platforms.
Experience with various front-end technology – React / View
We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you’ll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria of this role. If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know.
At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.
We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks completed as part of the on-boarding process.