Helia, as Australia’s first Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) provider, with over 50 years expertise in the Australian housing market are in the process of re-inventing ourselves.

We exist to accelerate financial wellbeing through home ownership, now and for the future. Our mission is to create innovative and tailored solutions in partnership with our customers. We aim to do this efficiently and conveniently, leveraging state of the art technology and data solutions.

Helia, as Australia’s first Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) provider, with over 50 years expertise in the Australian housing market are in the process of re-inventing ourselves.
We exist to accelerate financial wellbeing through home ownership, now and for the future. Our mission is to create innovative and tailored solutions in partnership with our customers. We aim to do this efficiently and conveniently, leveraging state of the art technology and data solutions.

At Helia, our squads are made up of engineers who own what they build. That means no hand-offs and no silos — just strong engineering, shared accountability, and real impact. You’ll work across backend, frontend, infrastructure and operations, using AI tools and modern engineering practices to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to grow into a genuinely full-stack, cloud-capable engineer in an AI-native environment, with support from Senior colleagues and Principal Engineers along the way.

Responsibilities

• Work in a high-trust, self-managing squad.

• Design, build and operate scalable, secure and maintainable solutions.

• Develop backend services and APIs, work with data stores, contribute to database design and evolution, and contribute to frontend applications and user experiences.

• Provision and evolve AWS infrastructure using CDK and infrastructure-as-code practices as part of normal feature delivery.

• Participate in planning, estimation and delivery with shared accountability, and engage stakeholders where appropriate.

• Take operational responsibility for what you build – monitoring, observability, support and continuous improvement are part of the job.

• Use AI coding assistants daily to accelerate implementation, testing and refactoring, and experiment with automations or small agentic workflows to improve team productivity.

• Maintain accountability for quality, correctness, security and compliance of what you ship.

• Build and maintain AWS-native infrastructure using CDK as a first-class engineering activity, and understand how services deploy, scale and interact within AWS.

• Apply strong software engineering fundamentals and follow DevSecOps, CI/CD, security, privacy and compliance practices in a regulated financial services context.

What you’ll bring

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to write production-quality code

• A willingness to work across backend, frontend and infrastructure

• Hands-on exposure to AWS; experience with CDK is a bonus

• Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD and observability

• Awareness of security, resilience and compliance in regulated environments

• A proactive mindset, strong communication skills and a willingness to ask for help and keep learning

• Interest in becoming an AI-native engineer and using modern tooling responsibly

Tech stack
These technologies represent the core stack you will work with and grow into

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, AWS CDK, Entra and/or Cognito

• Backend: Java 21, Spring Boot, REST APIs

• Data: PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora, RDS, AWS Glue, Python

• Frontend: TypeScript, modern web applications

• AI Tooling: AWS Bedrock, GitHub AI coding assistants, agentic workflows

• Engineering Practices: CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, monitoring and observability

At Helia, we are building a team focused on opportunities: creating brighter futures for our people. When you come to work at Helia, you’re joining an organisation that cares about what’s important to you. Whether it’s greater work-life balance, flexible working arrangements or looking after your wellbeing, we provide access to benefits that help support you both professionally and personally.
Helia is a place where you can grow and make a difference. We provide a great learning culture, where cross collaboration, training and innovation happens to embrace and embed a customer service culture. We are based in the heart of North Sydney, with spacious offices and some of the most fantastic views in Sydney!
If you are interested in joining a company where you can realise your full potential and grow, we would love to hear from you!
We have a diverse business community: our people, our customers and communities are reflective of this and as an organisation we are committed to continually hiring a diverse workforce. We ensure our people always feel supported and we do this by our openness to flexible work options and our commitment to inclusion, regardless of career level, life-stage, or experience.

At Helia, we are building a team focused on opportunities: creating brighter futures for our people. When you come to work at Helia, you’re joining an organisation that cares about what’s important to you. Whether it’s greater work-life balance, flexible working arrangements or looking after your wellbeing, we provide access to benefits that help support you both professionally and personally.

Helia is a place where you can grow and make a difference. We provide a great learning culture, where cross collaboration, training and innovation happens to embrace and embed a customer service culture. We are based in the heart of North Sydney, with spacious offices and some of the most fantastic views in Sydney!

If you are interested in joining a company where you can realise your full potential and grow, we would love to hear from you!

We have a diverse business community: our people, our customers and communities are reflective of this and as an organisation we are committed to continually hiring a diverse workforce. We ensure our people always feel supported and we do this by our openness to flexible work options and our commitment to inclusion, regardless of career level, life-stage, or experience.