Principal Engineer

About the role - 

Join our Tech team under the Executive Leadership of Whitney Cali our new Group Executive - Tech, Product and Data. As a team we provide technology infrastructure and services to deliver the full range of financial services including mortgages, asset finance, insurances and financial planning across Australia and New Zealand. Our operational focus is to provide efficient enabling technology, managing information strategically, and expanding and improving our service delivery. 

We are agile and fast moving and yet we have the benefits of working in a larger organisation with the resources and financial ballast for innovation and the opportunity to work on large scale, complex systems. 

This role is responsible for development and maintenance of software created by Loan Market Group. In particular: 

• Technical leadership 
• Engineering practices 
• Software development 
• Production operations 
• Software and cloud infrastructure improvement and maintenance 
• Technical support
• Rapid prototyping 
• Product design 

As a Principal Engineer, your core role is to provide technical leadership and to foster a collaborative and supportive team environment. For further guidance about the role, please refer to: https://github.com/loanmarket/career-ladder/blob/main/Engineering.md 

• Guide the technical decisions made and implemented across all products created by the team. 
• Lead, by example and as a mentor, other team members towards a positive development culture. 
• Develop higher-order, SaaS-like software modules for consumption by broker businesses, end consumers, and third parties 
• Refine live software products based on performance metrics and customer feedback.
• Validate new product concepts with rapid prototyping. 
• Act as a technically minded, hands-on team lead and mentor for both local and remote development teams 
• Responsible and accountable for overall quality, stability and performance of the software delivered by the engineering teams led. 
• Contribute to a technology ecosystem of in-house software, purchased products and 3rd-party integrations. 
• Provide technical support to the customers and customer-facing corporate staff that use our software. 
• Proactively learn new skills and technology that can advance product development within the team. 
• Bring your curiosity and we will give you freedom, influence and responsibility

To succeed in this role you will bring with you - 

• Academic qualifications preferred, not essential - Bachelor in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar. 
• Extensive experience developing complex web-based software in a team environment 
• Curiosity 
• Be Autonomous 
• Strong communication
• Understanding that software is a team sport 
• Interested in the business models of software products, not just the technical challenges of programming 

Must have experience: 

• .NET 8+ and ASP.NET;
• Database design and advanced SQL
• Experience with a modern web UI framework (React/Angular/Vue) 

Desirable experience: 

• Dev ops - Bash scripting, GitHub Actions, Infra as code (Terraform), AWS and Octopus Deploy; 
• Event-driven architecture and abstraction libraries e.g. MassTransit;
• Containerised Development - Docker Desktop or similar
• Native mobile application development for iOS / Android