Junior Full Stack Engineer at Pivot Wealth – Sydney NSW | Jobyssey

You can code. But can you build something that actually changes an industry?

We're hiring a Junior Full Stack Engineer who ships, tinkers with AI on the weekend, and gets genuinely interested when data is involved.

About Pivot Wealth

Pivot Wealth is one of Australia's fastest-growing and most awarded financial advice firms. We work with high performing professionals and business owners to help them create a life not limited by money.

We're a financial advice business that builds its own technology. Just about everything humans do in advice right now, we're looking to scale with tech, so we can reach millions of Australians rather than thousands. How many financial advice businesses do you know that have a full engineering department?

We're commercially ambitious, technically progressive, and deeply focused on outcomes.

About the Opportunity

We're building an in-house engineering team from the ground up. Start-up energy, inside a high-growth, award-winning business.

You'll report directly to our Principal Engineer and work primarily on our in-house CRM application. Your job is to take well-scoped work and ship it cleanly, end to end, from database through API route to UI.

This is not a role where you'll wait to be told how to solve a problem. You'll be trusted with real work early, and the growth path into broader ownership is genuine, not a line we put in an ad.

Roughly 80 to 90% of your first six months is hands-on feature development and bug fixes. The rest is test coverage, tooling, and helping shape how this team works.

Sydney based, with hybrid working flexibility.

What You'll Own

Ship features end to end in our in-house CRM: database, API routes, React UI
Write unit and E2E tests as standard practice, not as an afterthought
Write real SQL against PostgreSQL. Joins, indexes, migrations, no ORM safety net
Build components to the standard of the existing codebase
Raise quality concerns in code review, not just receive them
Flag blockers early and ask good questions
Use AI coding tools actively to accelerate your output
Grow into technical decision-making within your area of the codebase
Build agentic automation. One of your first projects is a bug fix agent pipeline, so you'll be shipping AI that writes and ships the bug fixes

You are not:

Just waiting to be told exactly what to do
Someone who goes quiet for three days when they get stuck
An engineer who treats tests as optional
Sitting in a silo. You'll talk directly to the people across the business who use what you build, pull requirements from them yourself, and understand the problem before you write a line of code

Technical Environment

GCP native, Australian data sovereign. Everything locked to australia-southeast1.

Language and framework: TypeScript 5, Node 20, Next.js App Router, React 18, Tailwind
Data: PostgreSQL 15 via raw SQL, hand-written migrations, custom data access layer, Zod validation
Testing: Vitest for unit, Playwright for E2E
Infrastructure: Docker to Cloud Run and Cloud SQL, GCS, Secret Manager, GitHub Actions
Observability: Datadog RUM and logs
AI tooling: Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT and Gemini used every day. AI-assisted code review sits alongside human review

Your Ticket to the Game

We're looking for someone 2 to 5 years into their career who is genuinely excited about building things. Specifically:

The right mindset, above everything else. Technical skills can be developed. Attitude can't be trained. Specifically:
You work well in a fast-paced team and find that energising rather than draining
You bring a positive attitude, are honest about what you don't know, and take feedback well
You can work with requirements that aren't fully fleshed out, and you'll go and get the detail rather than stall
Problem solving isn't just a skill for you, it's something you actually enjoy
Finance industry background, or a very strong interest in finance. You've either worked in fintech, banking, wealth or similar, or you're the sort of person who reads about markets, tax and investing for fun. The domain is complex and we need someone who wants to learn it properly
You've built things and shipped them. Not coursework. Real projects, ideally with a repo or a demo you can point to
AI-curious with receipts. You've built something with AI or you're actively going deep on it. We don't need an expert, we need someone excited to push further
TypeScript and Next.js depth. Solid enough in the App Router and modern TypeScript to be productive quickly
PostgreSQL confidence. You can write real SQL and you understand what an index is doing
Testing discipline. You write tests. You know the difference between a unit test and an E2E test
Docker and CI/CD basics. You've worked in a pipeline. You don't need to be a DevOps expert
You communicate clearly. This is the number one thing we screen for. Ask good questions, flag blockers, explain what you built and why to someone non-technical

Why Work With Us?

Join an in-house engineering team at the ground floor and help define how it works
Build AI infrastructure that materially changes how financial advice gets delivered in this country
Learn a genuinely interesting domain alongside people who know it deeply
Be part of an AFR Fast 100, high-growth business: more info here https://www.afr.com/companies/agriculture/2025-afr-fast-100-20251110-p5n97h
Competitive package
Direct access to leadership. No politics, no bureaucracy, no layers
A fast pace that means more exposure, more learning, and short distance between shipping something and seeing what it changed
See first hand the difference your work makes to the 50+ staff in the office

Ready?

This role is for someone who wants to see their work in production and grow fast doing it.

Apply with your CV, your Github link and and a short note telling us about something you've built outside of work or study, and why the finance side of this interests you.

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