Front-End Senior Developer

About Us:

At Auto & General (A&G), we provide great products and services to safeguard our customers in their time of need. Our range of general insurance products protects customers on the road, at home and on holiday with various Car, Motorcycle, Home, Contents, and Pet products as well as Roadside Assistance.

Our culture of ‘high performance with high integrity’ underpins our values and the way we interact with our customers, the community and each other. We’re excited about the future and we’re always on the lookout for talented, passionate individuals who can help us achieve our goal of being Australia’s best insurer! If this sounds like you, apply today.

The Role:

This role is a key continuous improvement and application support role building out the best digital tools to support Auto and General’s customers. You will take ownership of supporting and improving systems used by Auto and General’s customer-facing teams.

The role will be working in one of several cross-functional agile teams, supported by roles including tester, business analyst and product owner. All software is delivered via agile teams and deployed via a modern DevOps/CI pipeline to AWS.

This role will be working within a large technology team, consisting of developers, testers and agile practitioners at Auto and General’s fantastic location in Toowong.

Accountabilities:

• Take ownership of the product, contribute improvement and innovation ideas.
• Work collaboratively within a cross functional Agile team, contributing to support, deployment, and development activities.
• Leverage your experience to lead solution designs and development of the architecture.
• Establish and own best practice testing across unit, integration and end to end tests.
• Perform other reasonable and relevant activities as requested from time to time to meet operational requirements

Knowledge and Experience:

Essential:

• Extensive experience building, deploying, maintaining and supporting software applications.
• Expert knowledge of modern front-end and microservices architecture
• Expert knowledge of NodeJS and Typescript.
• Experience with technical documentation, including high-level and low-level designs, UML diagrams, user guides and system documentation.
• Experience using and configuring application and system monitoring tools.
• Experience with Kubernetes, and AWS Developer Tools and ecosystem.
• Experience with APIs and GraphQL.
• Drive best practice of software application security standards for web applications (e.g., OWASP).
• Ability to work in the Atlassian suite of products. JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket and Bamboo.
• Ability to coach others and share expertise for the greater good of our people.

Advantageous:

• Familiarity with other modern web frameworks such as React or Vue.
• Experience in or knowledge of GitLab DevOps Platform.
• A background in financial services applications is an advantage.

Our Perks:

• Location – Our office is conveniently based in Toowong Village shopping centre - a city fringe location with access to retail, restaurants, various parking options and public transport.
• Extra leave - Enjoy additional leave days on us! You’ll receive a paid ‘ME’ day and one paid volunteer leave day annually. Team members can also purchase up to two additional weeks of leave per year.
• Paid parental leave - We support our new parents with paid parental leave and other benefits.
• Workplace giving - If you’re passionate about a cause, then we are too – we offer workplace giving and we’ll dollar match your donations to registered charities.
• Development opportunities - We’re championing your development with internal programs and access to a wide range of online courses.
• Employee discounts - You’ll receive discounts on Budget Direct insurance products.c
• Reward and recognition - We reward high performance with employee recognition, reward and incentive schemes.
• Onsite facilities – There are excellent end-of-trip facilities on offer and private spaces for nursing mothers.
• Get social - Join our vibrant social and community activities including annual celebrations, family fun days and regular events across each of our sites.
• Perks App - Access to an employee benefits and discounts app called ‘Perks’ offering your great discounts, offers and programs across a range of areas.

If you are seeking a new challenge and would enjoy the opportunity to work in a growing and changing business, click on the APPLY NOW button and submit your application.

Auto & General values individual differences and believes in fostering an inclusive culture that creates a great place to work for all.

*A note from Auto & General to recruitment agencies: We politely ask that you avoid making any approaches or sending any unsolicited resumes to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Leaders across our business. Auto & General is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.