Engineer

Helia is Australia’s first Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) provider, with more than 60 years of expertise in the Australian housing market. We exist to accelerate financial wellbeing through home ownership.

Our mission is to deliver innovative, tailored solutions in partnership with our customers, making the home ownership journey simpler and more accessible. We do this through efficient, customer-focused services powered by leading technology, data and digital solutions.

At Helia, our squads are made up of engineers who own what they build. That means no hand-offs and no silos — just strong engineering, shared accountability, and real impact. You’ll work across backend, frontend, infrastructure and operations, using AI tools and modern engineering practices to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to grow into a genuinely full-stack, cloud-capable engineer in an AI-native environment, with support from Senior colleagues and Principal Engineers along the way.

Responsibilities

• Work in a high-trust, self-managing squad.

• Design, build and operate scalable, secure and maintainable solutions.

• Develop backend services and APIs, work with data stores, contribute to database design and evolution, and contribute to frontend applications and user experiences.

• Provision and evolve AWS infrastructure using CDK and infrastructure-as-code practices as part of normal feature delivery.

• Participate in planning, estimation and delivery with shared accountability, and engage stakeholders where appropriate.

• Take operational responsibility for what you build – monitoring, observability, support and continuous improvement are part of the job.

• Use AI coding assistants daily to accelerate implementation, testing and refactoring, and experiment with automations or small agentic workflows to improve team productivity.

• Maintain accountability for quality, correctness, security and compliance of what you ship.

• Build and maintain AWS-native infrastructure using CDK as a first-class engineering activity, and understand how services deploy, scale and interact within AWS.

• Apply strong software engineering fundamentals and follow DevSecOps, CI/CD, security, privacy and compliance practices in a regulated financial services context.

What you’ll bring

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to write production-quality code

• A willingness to work across backend, frontend and infrastructure

• Hands-on exposure to AWS; experience with CDK is a bonus

• Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD and observability

• Awareness of security, resilience and compliance in regulated environments

• A proactive mindset, strong communication skills and a willingness to ask for help and keep learning

• Interest in becoming an AI-native engineer and using modern tooling responsibly

Tech stack
These technologies represent the core stack you will work with and grow into

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, AWS CDK, Entra and/or Cognito

• Backend: Java 21, Spring Boot, REST APIs

• Data: PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora, RDS, AWS Glue, Python

• Frontend: TypeScript, modern web applications

• AI Tooling: AWS Bedrock, GitHub AI coding assistants, agentic workflows

• Engineering Practices: CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, monitoring and observability

At Helia, we’re building a team focused on creating opportunities and brighter futures for our people. When you join Helia, you become part of an organisation that genuinely cares about what matters to you — whether that’s work-life balance, flexible ways of working, wellbeing, or professional growth. We offer a range of benefits and support designed to help you thrive both personally and professionally.

Helia is a place where you can grow, learn and make a meaningful impact. We foster a collaborative and inclusive culture where innovation, continuous learning and cross-functional teamwork are encouraged to deliver great customer outcomes. Located in the heart of North Sydney, our office offers a vibrant workplace experience with some of Sydney’s best views.

If you are interested in joining a company where you can realise your full potential and grow, we would love to hear from you!

We have a diverse business community: our people, our customers and communities are reflective of this and as an organisation we are committed to continually hiring a diverse workforce. We ensure our people always feel supported and we do this by our openness to flexible work options and our commitment to inclusion, regardless of career level, life-stage, or experience.