Principal Software Engineer - Hawthorn East
We’ve been proudly serving Australian communities since 1914 and have grown to become a top 30-listed company on the ASX with a portfolio of iconic homegrown brands. At the heart of our continued success is over 115,000 team members working across the country, all contributing to bringing our customers smiles. You’ll not only get to see your work make a difference, you’ll be part of a team working together to help Australians eat and live better every day.
About the team
Our Technology team is the backbone of the business, building and maintaining the information technology infrastructure that support Coles Group. As a part of the Technology team, you get the opportunity to work through complex, challenging, meaningful problems using large data sets and new technologies to expand your skills and experience.
About the role
This role is critical to maintaining leadership across the Coles website technical stack and GraphQL integration. The Principal Engineer provides architectural oversight, design assurance, and technical direction across multiple squads, ensuring platform stability, scalability, and alignment with enterprise standards.
Work Experience
- Seasoned software engineer with at least 10 years’ experience
- 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 working 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 outside of your direct influence
- Aptitude for people management, coaching & training a must
- Stakeholder management skills
- Great people communicator, excellent communication skills
- Ability to coordinate across multiple technology and business teams
Responsibilities
Planning & Design
- Ownership of the web tech stack
- Guild ownership, cultivating a culture of knowledge sharing, collaboration and support
- Engineering tooling selection and alignment
- Definition of architecture and coding standards
- Review and endorsements of implementation plans
- Review of Key Decision Documents
- Refinement and prioritisation of tech debt backlog. Driving initiatives to maintain the overall platform health
Software Delivery
- Support an engineering team to develop delivery goals within agreed timelines
- Facilitate agile scrum practices within the team, offer support to delivery managers in defining timelines and project requirements
Engineering Quality
- Ensure the team is developing software quality in-line with the broader teams’ expectations
- Facilitate and govern peer reviews and testing standards
Team Development
- Empower and develop the engineering team’s skills
- Facilitate training, ensure all engineers are meeting needs and gaining help to close gaps
- Grow a culture that elicits a high-performing team and a fun working environment
What’s in it for you?
- 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.
About the recruitment process
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: 176575
Employment Type: Full time