Senior Frontend Software Developer

About Padua Financial Group

Padua Solutions is a Software & Services firm specialising in supporting financial advisers, practices and licensees in providing high quality financial advice. Padua was founded in late 2013 by siblings Anne-Marie and Matthew Esler.

Padua is focussed on solving four of the financial advice industry’s key challenges – time, cost, quality and trust. Padua’s purpose is: “We create more value” and Padua’s vision is: “To provide solutions for better financial advice”.

Padua connects financial advisers with highly skilled resources via intelligent, proprietary technology. Padua have developed a sophisticated data engine and visual dashboards to deliver Padua’s highly sought-after advice data in real-time. Padua Software and Services are used by leading financial services firms including: Findex, Count, AMP, and Fiducian.

Purpose of the role

As a frontend developer your responsibilities will include planning, designing, building, and implementing the user interface systems of PADUA software applications. Your primary goal is to provide an awesome user experience. You will create and optimise applications, play an active role in testing and troubleshooting, and resolve issues. You will be the conduit between UX/Design and the backend software developers.

Core responsibilities

• Build and deploy frontend projects for our end users
• Collaborate with other software engineers and stakeholders to build and maintain high quality frontend architecture
• Confirm project requirements by reviewing program objective, input data and output requirements with your Manager
• Arrange project requirements by analysing stakeholder requirements, preparing workflow diagrams, and executing programming capabilities to the subject, language and logic.
• Research and suggest possible improvements to our frontend architecture, patterns and conventions for use in all Padua Technology projects
• Assist and mentor team members with implementation of frontend architecture, patterns and conventions
• Participate in Scrum and Agile practices and team presentations and meetings as required.
• Participate in design and code reviews and peer-reviews on a regular basis
• Maintain relevant documentation using Confluence and Git
• Maintain client confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, conferences and participating in professional societies.

Skills, knowledge and abilities

• Demonstrated experience with Angular 9+ (other frameworks such as React also relevant),
• Web development experience (HTML5/CSS3)
• Knowledge of Web APIs
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs (consuming and designing)
• Completed degrees in Information Systems and Technology or Computer Science and Software Engineering or other IT related studies,
• Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle, DevOps and Agile development,
• Experience in working within a software development team to build, test and deploy software to end users
• Experience in Project Tracking software (JIRA),
• Experience in using Git & Gitlab for source control,
• Exposure to utilising the AWS suite of Products and Services,
• Above average written and verbal communication skills, and
• Work autonomously and demonstrate initiative.
• A keen interest in fintech (preferable).

Important Information

Padua undertakes its responsibility seriously in regard to security of our client’s data. All final applicants for this position will be asked to consent to a criminal record check prior to an offer of employment.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent