The role:
Our client is looking for a Principal engineer to join and lead technically their engineering squads. Someone who has deep knowledge in designing, architecting new solutions and improving existing one.
What you will do:
- Work closely with product owners, SDMs and teams to lead feature implementation and/or source third party solutions when appropriate
- Research and recommend software solutions and tools that help fix inefficiencies in the development process, team collaboration, etc
- Help lead and drive development operations initiatives
- Optimise existing systems to improve performance and scalability through service/application tuning and code refactoring
- Fully and properly test code to ensure the highest levels of reliability and maintainability
- Troubleshoot major Production issues.
- Contribute to standards and best practices around development processes, coding, and peer reviews
To be successful in this role, you'll ideally have:
- Extensive experience as a Tech lead/architect within the Java, Javascript, React, NodeJS and AWS stack
- Extensive experience leading complex large-scale Information technology projects through the software delivery life cycle SDLC
- Strong experience in leading and directing the technical changes across teams in different geographies
- Proficient at building infrastructure with AWS
- Strong Database knowledge, Cassandra is a plus
Benefits:
- Our client is committed to hybrid working practices and have adopted flexible remote and virtual working.
- Sydney based but potential to work 100% remotely from other cities in Australia.
- Package between $160k to $180k.
