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Lead platform engineer

Sydney
Xprt Dev
Posted: 16 March
Offer description

Domain Information & Communication Technology → Software Engineering

home_work Hybrid

Posted 6 days ago

Shore Financial is Australia's leading independent mortgage and financial services group, founded in 2013 with a mission to deliver better outcomes for clients through expertise, scale, and choice.

Today, Shore supports clients across the full financial lifecycle — including residential and commercial lending, asset finance, financial planning, insurance, and our own home loan products. We empower brokers with market-leading support, training, and a strong national brand to help them build high-performing, sustainable businesses.

This role is for a senior individual contributor, not a people manager who will be the first dedicated technical hire at Shore Financial.

Shore Financial currently has no existing engineering team but there is scope to build on in the future as the implementation of Shore Financial's platform evolves.

The ideal candidate will need to be a hands-on engineer capable of planning and building out our platform.

The hire will be expected to work with the Shore Financial management team to prototype, scope and deliver against our existing technology roadmap, while working to evolve the roadmap as new requirements come to light.

The candidate should have skills in the following areas:

Technical

Standard Senior Engineer IC skillsets (git source control, SDLC pull request and branching strategies, production monitoring and alerting, audit logging, configuration compliance management).

AWS production experience (CDK/TypeScript, serverless, event-driven services, AWS CDK or other IAC frameworks)

Data engineering: built a warehouse or data lake with a layered architecture (bronze/silver/gold or equivalent)

Full Stack engineering skills for example: Python/TypeScript, SQL

API integration with multiple third-party systems (CRMs (Mortgage Broker CRMs is a plus but not expected to be common), document processing, BI tools)

Infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, production monitoring

Agentic AI patterns: RAG, tool use, multi-step reasoning, human-in-the-loop escalation

Experience working on products that have undergone compliance audits with standards like ISO 27001/9001 or SOC certifications.

Working Style

Self-directed: sets own priorities, breaks out deliverables,

Can communicate to non-technical colleagues a roadmap and progress plans.

Bonus would be experience as an engineer in a small growth stage company, so comfortable as the sole technical person.

Doesn't over-engineer technical solutions, we want to deliver value quickly and incrementally.

Ownership mindset, treating the platform as their own

Domain & Growth

Genuine interest in AI and how it applies to real business problems

Follows the AI space, experiments, has opinions

Comfortable evolving an existing roadmap rather than just executing it

Capable of growing into technical leadership as the team scales

Financial services or lending tech experience is a plus (not required)

Business Context & Career Opportunity

Shore Financial has significant growth ambitions and this hire is central to delivering them. For the right person, the role carries real career upside.

This is a greenfield platform build, the successful candidate will have direct ownership of architectural decisions and delivery from the ground up with a running start based on our leadership's existing roadmap.

We have identified immediate short term goals that are impactful quick wins in the organisation. There is a longer term vision which you will be building towards tied to planned organisational growth.

Shore Financial is Australia's #1 independent mortgage brokerage for 10 consecutive years, with a strong national presence and continued expansion across complementary financial services.

Shore operates across multiple business lines including mortgage broking, financial planning and asset finance, each with their own platforms, data sources, and workflows. As the business grows and the team scales, this role has a natural path toward technical leadership.

A person who has driven platform value through the growth phase will be well positioned within the structure that follows. We view the ideal candidate as a foundational team member.

About Shore Financial

home_pin North Sydney, NSW, Australia

This company does not have any further information provided at this time. We encourage you to research the company by searching for them to learn more about the company or role in question before applying.

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