Lead Software Development Engineer

Your role

At Allens, our business teams are also specialists in their field, using their unique knowledge and expertise to solve critical client and business challenges.

You'll be a part of our IT team based in either Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane.

Your deep technical knowledge will be relied on as a leader within the team, ensuring best practices are followed and solutions are aligned with our business goals. You will have an opportunity to get involved with some of our priority projects, supporting delivery across multiple streams of work.

As a Lead Software Development Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping the firm’s technology direction. Your deep technical expertise will be relied on to ensure best practices are followed, solutions are aligned with business goals, and delivery is consistent across multiple workstreams. This is a hands-on role, with opportunities to contribute to architecture, coding, and mentoring others.

Client Value & Product Mindset

Deliver technology solutions that create measurable value for clients and internal users by solving real business problems through enterprise-grade platforms and data products.

Apply a product delivery mindset, balancing technical excellence with usability, viability, and business impact, while owning the full lifecycle of technical products from inception to continuous improvement.

Strategic Leadership & Architecture

Drive the firm’s long-term technical vision and platform strategy, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with evolving business needs.

Lead architectural decisions across enterprise platforms, including Azure, SharePoint, iManage, Workday, and Boomi, designing cloud-native, API-first solutions that support integration, interoperability, and future growth.

Innovation & Emerging Technology

Drive adoption of technologies like AI and automation to enhance delivery efficiency and unlock new opportunities for business innovation and value creation.

Experiment with emerging tech (e.g., generative AI) to accelerate delivery speed, streamline development workflows, and enable faster, more impactful outcomes for the business.

This is a permanent, full-time opportunity. Hybrid working (60% in the office) is how we work however flexibility matters at Allens, so if you are seeking hybrid working or are looking for flexibility in your work, we would be happy to discuss what arrangements would work best for you.

About you

You will have experience in :

Technical Delivery & Engineering Excellence

Lead the design, development, and deployment of secure, scalable software solutions.

Maintain and enhance production-grade codebases with a focus on performance, reliability, and continuous improvement informed by real-world metrics.

Operational Leadership & Team Enablement

Oversee sprint planning and execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring continuity of delivery and proactive management of technical debt, refactoring, and upgrades.

Lead and mentor a small team of developers, fostering autonomy, sharing knowledge, and maintaining high technical standards through hands-on collaboration and clear documentation.

Skills & Experience

10+ years in software development with proficiency in .NET and .NET Core, C#, PowerShell, JavaScript, and SQL.

Expertise in secure-by-design coding practices, software architecture, solution design, and engineering best practices.

Strong understanding of SDLC principles, agile methodologies, microservices architecture, and DevOps practices.

Proficiency in RESTful API development, OAuth flows, and cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS.

Extensive experience integrating systems across hybrid environments, including Azure, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and on-premises enterprise platforms.

Beneficial (but not necessary) experience might include :

Knowledge of Elastic Search

Knowledge of data platforms, like Fabric or DataBricks .

Your development

In joining Allens, you will receive unparalleled learning and development opportunities. You will be challenged, supported and guided as you learn and develop, and will be encouraged to grow. We foster greatness, and will coach and support you to meet your goals and aspirations.

Our unique Career Deal allows you to take control of your career and provides a transparent approach to career development. Our international alliance with Linklaters means we are able to support secondments all over the world.

Our perks

Our benefits include :

Financial : market competitive fixed remuneration, employee recruitment referral program, discounts at hundreds of suppliers including retail outlets, health and travel insurance, charity matched funding program.

Health and wellbeing : fully subsidised gym memberships, annual flu vaccinations, skin checks, in-house snacks and catered meals, subsidised sporting and social activities, Employee Assistance Program including confidential counselling, wellbeing coaching and financial coaching for employees and their families.

Flexibility : hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support you in your work and life commitments and passions, equipment to support working from home.

Leave : ability to purchase additional annual leave, access to an enhanced, inclusive and flexible parental leave policy – 26 weeks paid parental leave with no minimum service for permanent employees and high quality executive coaching to support the transition.

Recognition : team based recognition including social activities and contribution based recognition activities, and annual Allens Values Awards to nominate and recognise the incredible contributions of our people.

Allens is also proud to invest in our communities, giving you the opportunity to make a difference through our work on reconciliation, the environment and other social justice issues as well as our workplace giving and volunteering programs.

How to apply?

We'd love to hear from you so please click "apply now"! If you would like to find out more, please visit "This is Allens" or listen to our Allens Confidential podcast to hear real stories from real people about life at Allens.

At Allens, our culture is made up of unique backgrounds and varying life experiences. We celebrate our people's differences across gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, cultural backgrounds, First Nations communities, and family and caring arrangements. If you require adjustments to fully participate in our application process, please contact us at careers@allens.com.au . We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align, please express your interest by emailing us at careers@allens.com.au . The right role for you might be just around the corner!