JS Careers are partnering with a leading investment bank for a hands-on engineering role. This role is responsible for shaping architecture, delivery, and technical leadership while continuing to write production code across an evolving management platform.

The ideal candidate has solid full-stack engineering credentials and is looking to step into a role that blends technical leadership with influence over platform direction.

The role:

You'll balance technical contribution with architectural leadership on a business-critical operations platform, acting as Lead across complex, cross-functional initiatives.

You'll be responsible for:

- Providing end-to-end technical leadership across frontend (Angular) and backend (Java/Spring Boot) domains.
- Leading solution architecture activities and guiding engineering teams.
- Mentoring engineers and uplifting technical capability across the team.
- AI-assisted software engineering and embedding AI-enabled practices into day-to-day delivery.

What we're looking for:

- Strong full-stack engineering experience across Java 17+, Spring Boot and Angular.




- Strong understanding of modern front-end architecture.
- Experience designing and evolving service-oriented and microservices architectures.
- Experience leading solution architecture activities and driving architecture decisions for complex, large-scale systems.
- Proven experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Copilot or Gemini CLI.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and business outcomes.
- AWS architecture experience and exposure to Kafka or event-driven architectures is highly regarded.
- Candidates with Australian working rights are strongly preferred.
- Experience in financial services is strongly preferred.

If you are an experienced Java/full-stack developer with a passion for AI-assisted engineering and architectural leadership, please reach out to Reuben Godfrey for a confidential conversation ([email protected]).

📌 Senior Java Software Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 JS Careers
📍 Sydney