Full Stack Developer

Welcome to This Australian Life.  

From the millions of Australians we protect, to those that make it happen every day at TAL, people really are what we’re all about. We want to grow with you. Achieve with you. And support you to do your best work. That's why we're focused on developing leadership, promoting diversity, rewarding excellence, and retaining great talent. 

We're always looking for people who want to go further with us. People who do what’s right, aim high, and work smart.  Why not discover where we can go? 

This Developer is responsible for the development of Group Life Insurance applications and other tools/applications. The person filling this position is expected to work smoothly with peers across Technology.  They are required to translate business requirements into high quality, technical solutions whilst contributing to the culture of continuous innovation within the team. 

The person filling this position will need to acquire in-depth technical knowledge of the Group Life applications in a short time, TAL’s agile delivery methods and the Group insurance business domain.  They need to be proactive and able to work autonomously.  The expectation is that they either have prior experience in developing with cloud platform as a service resource or are willing to develop themselves in this respect.  Candidates with experience in modern, cloud-based API development will receive particular consideration.

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop a good understanding of the functionality of the application that you're working on
• Break down user stories into tasks and provide sizing estimates
• Develop reliable, usable software which meets business requirements within the required timeframes while minimising technical debt
• Ensure that security, performance, high availability and other non-functional requirements are met for solution development
• Provide Level 3 support for the software that the team builds
• Script and execute automated tests as required
• Write user stories as required
• Assist other team members when needed
• Resolve issues and risks within your immediate control and escalate when necessary
• Contribute to the strong culture of high quality, continuous improvement and innovation by following existing standards, helping to identify and enforce improvements to standards as required and sharing ideas and experience 

Essential Qualifications and Experience:

• IT or a related field qualification
• 3+ years as a .net software developer
• Digital solutions development experience with modern UI/UX frameworks such as Angular (preferred) or React
• Experience building front end and back-end components, services (WCF/Restful/microservices/GraphQL), modern API development and SQLServer
• Experience with Test Driven Development practices
• Agile methodology experience.

Desirable Qualification and Experience: Tertiary qualifications; Financial Services/Insurance/Life Insurance industry background; experience working with Jira & Confluence; application development with cloud resources (Azure or AWS).

Good personal skills: Good communication skills; proactive, responsible and holds oneself accountable to commitments made; goal oriented; analytically rigorous with a high attention to detail; collaborative and can also work independently; team player; introspective; flexible and adaptive in a fast-moving environment.

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.  

As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks. 

At TAL we value diversity in all its forms and are committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable culture for all our people. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, individuals from all backgrounds, including those with caring responsibilities, people living with disability, and individuals from the CALD and LGBTQI+ communities to apply. Even if you don’t check every box in the criteria above, we encourage you to apply today or get in touch with us here.   

To provide you with the best experience, we can accommodate you at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team at any time.  

TAL is recognised by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice.  We are proud to be a member of Diversity Council Australia and the Australian Network on Disability. For information on our reconciliation journey, take a look at our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.  

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.  

We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across and pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging. 

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

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