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Interested in working together? Email us at careers@ironflytechnologies.com and we will be in touch shortly!
Software Engineer - Web App (Sydney)
Ironfly develops next-generation technologies that change how professionals invest in financial markets. Our products handle information at massive scale and speed, and extend well beyond your typical financial trading system. The company was established in Hong Kong in 2013 and the founders have gone through multiple startup accelerator programs, including Cyberport and Accenture. After finishing the first working prototype, the company has been growing fast, and in the past 3 years Ironfly expanded their base of institutional clients in Hong Kong and Australia, as well as increased the number of teammates working together in Hong Kong and Sydney.
We are looking for dynamic people who can join our team and be part of making a massive positive impact on the world through their careers. Our goal is to help you - and millions of people worldwide - intuitively master your personal wealth by building an accessible, private, and secure platform where you can consolidate - and grow - your money. We are looking for engineers from diverse backgrounds who bring fresh ideas from fields such as game development, large-scale system design or highly regulated industries to work on our financial services platform for trading and visual analytics.
What you’ll be doing
We want you to use your web application development skills to join us in building a browser app and browser extension for millions of people. You’ll be able to leverage the extensive experience of our team for financial markets insights, and apply your Typescript and Javascript knowledge to build elegant, interactive data and chart elements to significantly improve real-world, everyday situations.
Who we are looking for
You are someone who’s interested in applying your problem solving skills in the most impactful way possible.
You have a proven ability and initiative to learn and research newconcepts, ideas, and technologies quickly - fulfilling a passion for innovating, inventing, and building.
You love finding simple solutions to complex problems, and care about the efficiency and maintainability of software.
You put the customer first and write code that will be used by real people. You enjoy considering why and how your customers will use the new features you create.
You’ve worked on complex or technical problems in the past and you understand the way that technology needs to integrate with real world systems.
You’re interested in joining a team where your contributions will be valued and you can own your own projects.
You’re adaptable, able to grow, and learn quickly in a startup environment.
We think you’ll be good at this if...
You have 3+ years of Javascript experience in front-end software development.
You have some knowledge of modern web technologies and frameworks including such as Angular, React, D3.js, and Electron
We think you’ll be great at this if...
You have 2+ years of Angular experience or some Typescript experience
You are familiar with Agile methodologies, particularly in Kanban and continuous delivery
You have a quality focus in your work and think use-case based test driven development is great.
Our team’s culture is to align efforts towards doing things the right way. We believe in an open environment where we can discuss the balance between investing the time and effort to build strong foundations to pave the way for sustainable long-term growth; and the way that faster delivery has meaningful and greater positive impacts for a larger number of people. For everybody, it means a collaborative environment that supports creativity, ownership, and the pursuit of excellence. It is a commitment from all of us to provide the right resources, clear expectations, and psychological safety. If you are keen to join a team that aims to leave this world a little bit better than it found it, and dream of improving lives and society at scale, then this opportunity is for you.
Get in touch.
Send us your CV along with any other information you’d like us to take into consideration (any projects you’ve worked on, Github profile, a link to your blog, etc) to careers@ironflytechnologies.com. We’ll be in touch. If we think you might be a good fit for our team, we’ll arrange to catch up for a chat.