Software Engineer

Wealth Wizards is a company focused on making financial advice accessible to everyone through their SaaS platform. The Software Engineer will own the full lifecycle of software creation, collaborating with cross-functional teams to build and maintain customer journeys and services.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the successful delivery of software for your team
• Work closely with the Lead Software Engineer and the Product Manager
• Partner effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments
• Collaborate actively in Agile ceremonies and apply Agile delivery principles to your work
• Build, support, and maintain products that are continuously delivered into our production environments
• Design, implement and document clean, maintainable, and scalable code that adheres to SOLID principles
• Contribute to the evolution of existing codebases through pragmatic refactoring and thoughtful extension, ensuring high test coverage and long-term reliability
• Participate in technical discussions during task analysis, design meetings, and code reviews
• Design and implement non-trivial APIs, backend services, and front-end applications using modern technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js and IaC
• Contribute to the growth and refinement of our coding standards and engineering principles, applying this knowledge to your code and code reviews
• Apply insightful analysis and planning to tackle non-trivial situations
• Ensure you build software where all aspects of product delivery are covered, especially non-functional quality attributes such as security, reliability, scalability, maintainability, and accessibility
• Adhere to All Information Security policies and procedures
• Continually learn about new technology, frameworks and libraries, being open to building with a variety of frameworks and libraries

Requirements:

• You have experience with our frontend and backend software development in our tech stack of Node.js, Typescript, Javascript and React
• You have experience in developing back-end REST APIs and working with relational or NoSQL databases
• Some knowledge of data structures and data-driven design
• Experience of modern web frameworks and libraries, such as React Router and Express
• Skilled in boosting software delivery productivity and code quality through prompt engineering with agentic coding assistants. Proficient in reviewing AI-generated output for alignment with engineering idioms and team best practices
• Exposure to event driven architecture and messaging systems
• Source code repositories such as GitLab or GitHub
• You have experience with unit and integration testing
• Able to identify and mitigate against OWASP top 10 security vulnerabilities
• Knowledge and implementation of predefined secure coding practises and secure architecture patterns
• Experience in refactoring systems towards a cleaner architecture, using techniques including abstraction and facades
• Able to review non trivial merge requests and give feedback to junior and mid level engineers which improves their code quality
• Take ownership of a task, analyse it, and solve problems you haven't encountered before
• Experience working as a software engineer in a team environment and are open to pair programming
• Understand the principles and values of agile practices, you are able to refine user stories into tasks and see the tasks through to delivery
• Understanding of how to use telemetry and metrics to triage operational tasks
• A desire to work collaboratively in your team, learn from others, and share your knowledge
• You exhibit technical curiosity, resilience in problem-solving, and seek feedback early and often
• Up-to-date with modern development and operations practices and are aware of the latest trends and tools
• You are committed to self-learning, showing how you've developed your skills
• You are adept at communicating context and sharing your understanding of a problem with your team
• You communicate clearly and effectively, both in writing and verbally
• You may have exposure to serverless or microservice architecture and infrastructure as code, preferably with Amazon Web Services
• Regular contributions to FoSS projects or writing technical articles is a bonus
• Exposure to accessibility best practises
• Understanding of financial regulations
• Terraform or SST
• Agile estimating techniques
• Software design patterns