Senior 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
As a Senior Software Engineer (iOS), you’ll design and deliver complex, customer-facing features using Swift and modern iOS frameworks. You’ll work with a high degree of autonomy within a squad, contributing to technical decisions, code quality, and delivery outcomes. Beyond feature delivery, you’ll mentor other engineers, influence engineering standards, and help ensure our iOS applications are reliable, scalable, and ready to support millions of customers.
Experience
- Designs and delivers complex iOS features independently using Swift and iOS frameworks
- Extensive experience contributing to largescale, customer facing mobile platforms
- Strong experience working in Agile Scrum environments, including estimation, planning, and refinement
- Proven ability to apply and influence software engineering standards without formal authority
- Demonstrated experience identifying and addressing technical debt proactively
- Experience contributing to incident resolution and post incident reviews
- Experience working in cloud based and CI/CD enabled environments desirable
- Experience collaborating with backend teams on GraphQL schema design and evolution (TypeScript based), preferred
Responsibilities
Software Delivery
- Design and deliver complex software features independently within agreed timelines
- Contribute to estimation, planning, and backlog refinement within the squad
- Actively support effective agile delivery practices through participation and technical leadership
Engineering Quality
- Apply and influence architectural, coding, and testing standards within the squad
- Proactively identify, prioritise, and address technical debt
- Ensure delivered features meet functional and nonfunctional requirements (performance, reliability, security)
- Participate in incident resolution and post incident reviews to drive systemic improvement
Team Contribution
- Mentor and support engineers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing
- Contribute to engineering guilds, communities of practice, and shared learning
- Actively improve team practices, ways of working, and technical outcomes
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: 175726
Employment Type: Full time