Lead Engineer
We’ve been trusted to serve Aussie communities since 1914 and grown to become a top 30-listed on the ASX with 120,000 team members and a portfolio of iconic brands. At Coles Group, you’ll not only get to make a difference to millions of Aussie lives—you’ll also get to see your impact.
About the team
Want to discover opportunities that challenge you? Connect to a career that can take you places? Inspire millions of Australians to lead healthier, happier lives? Digital is where you’ll find the freedom, support, and inspiration to do all that and more. We’re the team at the heart of our digital transformation – the ones creating the unified experiences and inclusive services our customers want and need. Open. Innovative. Accessibility-obsessed. It’s our Digital team that are redefining what we do, how we do it and why. So, we can build a digital offering fit for every Australian. So, we can shape the future of retail for better. So, we can find more ways to sustainably feed our nation – today and tomorrow.
About the role
Our Lead Software Engineers are responsible for building and delivering world-class software by defining and influencing proven engineering practices. You will also line manage, coach and mentor, and provide technical leadership to a team of engineers.
We are recruiting for multiple engineers and are open to candidates based anywhere Australia wide.
About you and your skills
You are a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience on tools, who advocates for good software engineering practices and have excellent analytical & problem-solving skills.
You have
- Experience driving quality product development through technical expertise & leadership
- Experience driving high quality development practices and ensuring the scalability and repeatability of all practices
- Extensive experience with one or more programming languages and frameworks (strong preference for C# .NET)
- Extensive experience with microservices and serverless architectures
- Extensive experience working in cloud environments (strong preference for Azure)
- Experience with containerisation & release pipelines
- Good exposure to Agile working environments and ability to drive strong Agile ways of working
- Exposure to a “shift left” approach to quality and can influence team accordingly
- Experience working in large scale projects and heavy-traffic platforms
- Ability to drive and enforce software engineering practices
- Experience managing relationships with senior leaders and other stakeholders
- Excellent analytical and problem resolution skills
- Proven ability to influence collaboration without formal authority
Take your next step into something bigger, apply now
With us it’s not about the discounts (although you do get those), it’s about joining a team where your wellbeing and professional development is our investment and celebrating your contributions is the norm. And because everyone leads unique lives, we offer flexible work, additional leave and parental leave entitlements.
We’re continuing to build a gender equitable team, and a culture that is just as diverse, inclusive and welcoming as the communities we serve. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe and respectful for our team. We encourage applications from people of all ages, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples), abilities, sexual orientation and gender identities.
We’re happy to adjust our recruitment process to support candidates with disability. For further information and additional contact details visit the ‘Our Recruitment Process’ section of our careers site or email inclusionrecruitment@coles.com.au
Job ID: 117747
Employment Type: Full time
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