A 12-month FTC, Full Stack Engineer role responsible for designing, building, and maintaining secure, high performing full stack solutions that power exceptional digital experiences for HCF members.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable front end and back end solutions aligned with business and architectural requirements.
- Develop responsive, accessible, and high-performing interfaces using modern frameworks and UI best practices.
- Implement modular, reusable, and clean server-side code, APIs, and microservices.
- Prepare accurate development estimates and contribute to planning, scoping, and technical design for new and enhanced digital applications.
- Collaborate with designers, analysts, architects, QA engineers, and other developers to deliver cohesive end to end solutions.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, proactively contributing to team planning, and refinement.
- Provide technical input that supports effective decision-making and strong user outcomes.
- Conduct rigorous unit, integration, and API testing to ensure reliability and performance across digital products.
- Support system testing, release activities, and defect remediation.
- Contribute to maintaining and improving coding standards, documentation, and development practices.
- Apply advanced knowledge of front end (JavaScript, React, Angular) and back end (Node.js, Java or similar) technologies.
- Develop RESTful APIs, backend services, and integration layers with focus on performance, security, and scalability.
- Optimise application performance end to end, including UI rendering, API responsiveness, and database efficiency.
- Utilise and enhance CI/CD pipelines, version control, and automated testing frameworks.
- Provide technical support for production issues, ensuring high system availability and data integrity (including occasional out-of-hours support).
- Operate within Agile delivery frameworks, contributing to sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Perform work in a manner that complies with relevant regulatory standards including Work Health & Safety (WHS) legislation.
Essential Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience, with 5+ years in software engineering including strong full stack delivery.
- Advanced proficiency in front end technologies: HTML5, CSS3/LESS/SASS, responsive design, and UI frameworks (React, Angular 15+, JavaScript, TypeScript, jQuery).
- Solid back end development experience using one or more modern languages/frameworks (Node.js, Java, Java Spring Boot).
- Strong experience building and consuming RESTful APIs, integrating distributed and cloud-based applications.
- Experience with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), including schema design, optimisation, and query tuning.
- Understanding of web architectures, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), microservices, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), and modern integration patterns.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar.
- Knowledge of front end build tools (Webpack, Gulp, Grunt) and templating techniques (e.g., Handlebars).
- Proficient in source control (Git, TFS, Stash) and performance optimisation across the full stack.
- Knowledge of object oriented programming, SOLID principles, design patterns, and secure coding practices.
- Demonstrated experience delivering within Agile/SCRUM frameworks.
- Strong analytical skills for troubleshooting complex technical issues across UI, APIs, backend logic, integrations, and data flows.
- Effective communication skills for engaging with both technical and non technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work collaboratively in cross functional teams and deliver robust, user centric digital experiences.
Desirable
- Prior experience in the insurance or healthcare domain is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of Adobe Experience Manager
About HCF
At HCF, our purpose is to bring our human touch to healthcare. Since 1932 we’ve been putting our members and their health first. As Australia’s largest not-for-profit health fund, we cover 2 million members with health, life, travel and pet insurance and our vision is to make healthcare understandable, affordable, high quality and member centric.
We want to be true health partners to our members, easily guiding the healthcare choices that are right for them. At HCF, our values are the way we do things and create the necessary culture to help us realise our purpose and deliver our Strategy. Living our values in action we step forward, walk in their shoes, stay human, make it better and get there together.
Culture & Benefits
Purpose-driven passion
We’re united by a common purpose: to make healthcare affordable, understandable, high quality and member-focused.
Wellness and work-life balance
We’ll empower you with the necessary skills and tools to support your personal wellbeing journey, ensuring you perform at your best. Our offerings include:
Flexible working arrangements
50% subsidy on HCF hospital and/or extras cover
Family-friendly certified employer
18 weeks of parental leave for all new parents
Mental health and wellbeing programs, including workshops, fitness classes, flu vaccinations, skin checks and more
Discounts on HCF’s products, including life, pet and travel Insurance, as well as discounts at Fitness First gyms and on our eyecare products.
Collaboration and inclusivity
We embrace diversity as our strength and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and collaborative work environment. Our workplace is welcoming and safe for all our employees, irrespective of their unique characteristics including age, ethnicity, cultural or spiritual background, gender identity, disability, education and socio-economic status.
Continuous learning and growth
We believe in lifelong learning. HCF provides opportunities for personal and professional development. From workshops to mentorship programs, we encourage your growth and curiosity.
Next steps
If you require any adjustments to assist you in making your application or during the recruitment or onboarding process, please reach out to Talent Acquisition – [email protected] to discuss.
We encourage applicants to submit their applications at their earliest convenience, as at HCF, we review applications as they are submitted, and may have filled the role prior to the job closing date.
