Principal Engineer
Latitude IT • Sydney, NSW, AU
30+ days ago
Job description
Job Description
Principal Software Engineer - Sydney OR Melbourne
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Overview
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We're partnering with a market-leading, fast-growing employee benefits and financial services business as they continue to invest in and scale their technology function.
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They're looking for an experienced Principal Engineer to play a key role in shaping their engineering capability, architecture and technology direction.
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The Role
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As the Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
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- Shaping and influencing the organisation's technical vision and engineering strategy \n
- Mentoring and developing senior engineers, helping raise technical capability across the team \n
- Driving the adoption of AI-assisted development and modern engineering practices across the organisation \n
- Leading complex, cross‐functional initiatives and defining scalable software architectures \n
- Providing technical mentorship, establishing best practices and championing engineering excellence \n
- Hands‐on full-stack engineering, contributing across both front-end and back-end development while helping solve complex technical challenges. \n
- Collaborating with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust solutions \n
- Influencing hiring decisions and helping shape a high‐performance engineering culture \n
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What You'll Bring
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You must have this experience to be successful in the role:
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- 10+ years software engineering experience with 3+ years in technical leadership \n
- Expert-level .NET expertise, with strong experience designing and building scalable applications \n
- Strong TypeScript and React.js experience, with a hands‐on approach to full-stack development \n
- Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure preferred), SQL Server, Redis and observability tools (Datadog, LaunchDarkly) \n
- Proven track record delivering large‐scale, distributed systems and driving process improvements \n
- Strong communication, collaboration and problem‐solving skills \n
- Hands‐on experience with AI‐assisted dev tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude) and LLM API integration \n