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 recent 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

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