Hybrid Principal Software Engineer

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About the role

  • Principal Software Engineer maintaining leadership in Coles Group's web tech stack. Responsible for architectural oversight and supporting engineering teams to achieve goals.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain leadership across the Coles website technical stack and GraphQL integration
  • Provide architectural oversight, design assurance, and technical direction across multiple squads
  • Ensuring platform stability and scalability
  • Review and endorse implementation plans
  • Support an engineering team to develop delivery goals
  • Facilitate agile scrum practices within the team
  • Ensure the team is developing software quality in-line with broader teams’ expectations
  • Empower and develop the engineering team’s skills
  • Drive a culture that elicits a high-performing team and a fun working environment

Requirements

  • 10 years’ experience in software engineering
  • Extensive experience with front-end web development and related tools/languages/frameworks
  • Deep understanding of architectural principles & system design
  • Experience working in large scale projects and high-traffic platforms
  • Ability to drive software engineering practices
  • Excellent analytical and problem resolution skills
  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
  • Experience on external systems related to front-end engineering (CDN/REST/GraphQL/Cloud etc.)
  • Experience with release and automation pipelines desirable
  • Tertiary qualifications in a technology engineering discipline such as computer science preferred
  • Practiced understanding of leadership principals
  • Ability to engage with other technical leaders to drive improvements
  • Aptitude for people management, coaching & training a must
  • Stakeholder management skills

Benefits

  • Flexible working options: We know that work is only one part of your life, so we actively encourage a positive work-life balance and provide hybrid working options to help you achieve it.
  • Office perks: Take advantage of our gym facility and fitness classes, free parking, BBQ area, mini-Coles supermarket, fooderie hub where you can sample new products before they hit the shelves, school holiday program and so much more when you come in.
  • Discounts: Eligible team members receive 5% discount all year round on your Supermarket and Liquor online and in-store purchases. We also offer additional periods of double discount (10%) at various times throughout the year. As well as hotdeals exclusive to team members that translate into additional savings.
  • Reward through recognition: Give and receive recognition, linked to our Coles values, through our digital recognition platform ‘mythanks’. You can accumulate points to redeem in the online shop for exciting gifts and electronic gift cards from an extensive range of retailers.
  • Opportunities for learning and development: No matter where you start within our diverse business, you’ll have experiences, exposure, and education to satisfy you. Discover and explore a variety of career development programs and job-specific training.
  • Paid parental leave: We understand how important your life outside work is and offer permanent team members paid parental leave to support you in balancing work and family.
  • Investment in your future: Our annual team member share plan offer allows eligible team members to make regular pre-tax salary sacrifice deductions to purchase Coles Group shares.

Job title

Principal Software Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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