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About Household Capital Australia

Household Capital, a specialized financial services firm, offers Australian retirees opportunities to leverage home equity for enhanced retirement financing. Their mission is to empower retirees with flexibility and confidence, enabling them to make informed decisions about their lifestyle and retirement needs, emphasizing the value of the family home as a key asset for funding retirement.

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Your role

As a software developer working alongside talented peers within the team, you will be involved in the software engineering and delivery of cloud infrastructure and application services while gaining a deep understanding of the financial industry's products and services. You will be working in an agile environment, driven by client value and feedback, with a focus on user experience, process automation, integration, data analytics, and machine learning. Your direct contribution to defining and implementing critical business solutions will support the next stage of their growth.

Training & development

At Household Capital, this is a great opportunity to join the financial service industry and obtain software development skills. They provide industry-specific training and professional development. You may also have the possibility to perform multiple technical roles, giving you more exposure to a range of different platforms and services. They allow you to use of the latest tools and technologies to best support your role and you have ongoing access to leading learning and development courses/programs with dedicated study times.

Benefits

Here are some of the benefits Household Capital Australia offers to its employees:

• An environment where you and your opinion matters
• An enabling culture to make a real positive difference
• A compelling employment package including a competitive salary
• Choice of laptops and operating systems
• Regular hackathons and code fests

Work life balance

Household Capital offers a flexible work policy and a great office location in Melbourne CBD which allows you to have great cycle-to-work facilities with showers and lockers. They have a strong community culture with regular social get-togethers to improve their employee's work-life balance.

Company culture

Household Capital's company culture centres on reshaping perceptions of aging and addressing the financial, housing, and well-being needs of retirees. Led by CEO Josh Funder, the team focuses on overcoming market failures and providing long-term purpose-driven lending, guided by values that prioritize customer confidence and satisfaction. Customer feedback underscores the success of their approach, emphasizing emotional well-being and confidence over financial gains.

About you

Qualifications

• A software engineer willing to learn modern engineering trends and technologies
• A team person with the ability to relate effectively and positively with all people at all levels
• A combination of positive personality traits (smart, innovative, low ego, collaborative, honest, of high integrity, intensity, and passion)
• A tertiary qualification in computer science or software engineering
• Great programming/scripting skills
• A strong sense of ownership
• Real passion for learning technology
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Desire to successfully deliver solutions to clients

Desirables

• Knowledge of one or more application development stacks - e.g. Python, NodeJS, Java, etc.
• Ability to write clean, testable code with the appropriate unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Experience with shell scripting and build tools, such as Bash, Zsh, and Make.
• Experience with online version control and code management platforms, such as GitHub
• Understanding the benefits of DevOps practices to improve the software delivery process
• Understanding the concepts of serverless computing, microservices architecture, and application programming interfaces
• Familiarity with the use of AWS services and trends, and associated infrastructure-as-code technologies, such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Understanding of fully-featured build and delivery pipelines using modern CI/CD platforms, such as Buildkite
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation tools, such as Grafana
• Familiarity with PaaS products and containers, such as Docker
• Experience with a fully-featured CRM service, such as Salesforce with Lightning and Apex
• Understanding of Internet communication protocols
• Understanding of relational and NoSQL databases
• Understanding of parallel execution and multi-threading
• Familiarity with agile development practices including Kanban, cross-functional teams, and continuous improvement
• Commercial experience within the financial services industry

Source

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• householdcapital.com.au/careers/
• householdcapital.com.au/corporate/