Senior Back End Developer

Why This Role, Why Now

Ignition is growing and growing consistently. As we scale our platform to serve more tier-1 financial institutions across Australia, the UK, and Europe, we're expanding our engineering team to match that ambition.

This isn't a role where you maintain the status quo. Research and development is embedded in how we build, we continuously explore and implement modern techniques and patterns across our microservices and event-driven platform. If you want to work on meaningful financial technology problems with a team that values engineering rigour and moves fast without cutting corners, this is that opportunity.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead development of new features across the core financial advice platform, from design through to delivery


• Contribute to architecture decisions in close collaboration with the Principal Engineer


• Design and implement services within our microservices and event-driven architecture


• Apply and champion engineering practices including TDD, trunk-based development, and continuous delivery


• Own automated testing across unit, integration, and E2E as a core part of your development workflow


• Actively participate in code reviews, raising the quality bar across the team


• Contribute to the evolution of engineering standards, design patterns, and development practices


• Play an active role in DevOps including CI/CD pipeline management, platform work, and incident response


• Share knowledge and experience with colleagues, informally mentoring and supporting the growth of those around you

You will bring

• 10+ years of development experience with C# and .NET (including .NET 6+)


• Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures, applying a database-per-service model across polyglot data stores


• Hands-on experience with AWS data services including DynamoDB, OpenSearch, and Aurora Serverless (PostgreSQL)


• Strong understanding of API design including REST and gRPC


• Experience with observability practices including structured logging, distributed tracing, and metrics


• Security-conscious development with a sound understanding of authentication, authorisation, and secure coding standards


• Experience with Docker and containerised workloads


• Experience with third-party integrations and common integration patterns


• Deep knowledge of software design patterns and engineering best practices


• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing across unit, integration, and E2E


• Familiarity with the Atlassian toolset including Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket


• Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery teams

On any given day you might…..

• Contribute to a daily async standup over Slack, keeping aligned with team members 


• Join a bi-daily team catchup to share progress, raise blockers, and align on what you need from each other


• Develop new features and improvements across existing services, with occasional new service creation on a per-needs basis


• Review a pull request, giving considered feedback that raises the quality of the codebase


• POC a new feature or explore a modern pattern as part of an R&D spike


• Work through a complex technical problem independently, pulling in the Principal Engineer when you need a sounding board


• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline improvements or help respond to a production issue


• Sync with the frontend or client delivery team to align on an integration point