1. Join a customer-obsessed technology business at the heart of Australia’s largest retailer
2. Opportunity to work across the latest technology and methodology
3. Permanent hybrid role based in Surry Hills with working from home flexibility
Welcome to WooliesX
As a business inside one of Australia's largest retailers, WooliesX aims to bring the best of Woolworths Group to our customers.
We're an innovation business that brings together the brightest minds in e-commerce, technology, media, and data to transform how people live and shop. With an industry-leading technology team backed by analytics, we're resourceful and willing to experiment. Our agile teams are empowered to innovate and deliver an excellent experience for our customers - whether they shop in-store or online.
What you'll do
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The Principal Engineer works across all squads and chapters in their value stream or tribe, with a focus on the most complex and highest impact technical changes or implementations.
In consultation with the value stream or tribe Leadership team the role has the flexibility to identify the areas that should be given focus and to dive as deep as necessary to ensure the team is set up for technical success. This requires experience and expertise across the end to end technical stack from cloud infrastructure, networks, storage, security, backend, web and mobile engineering.
The role will be involved in coaching and guiding squads through the application lifecycle including design, development, testing and deployment. Where appropriate it will involve building PoC capabilities to validate assumptions before more significant investments are made in technology or team time.
What you'll bring
You will require excellent technical and leadership skills, and be able to translate a business strategy and understand how application, information and technology engineering functions come together. As you will engage with senior business & technology stakeholders, you will require excellent communication & influencing skills.
In addition you will have:
4. Demonstrated experience in solution design and have worked across hosted cloud environments in Kubernetes
5. Experience developing solutions based on REST APIs along with experience with large web eCommerce sites (Preference Retail)
6. Understanding of Cloud Infrastructure (IAAS) technology (terraform)
7. Experience of working on transformation programs along with network design subnets and access control
8. Experience in troubleshooting bottlenecks performance issues across the full stack
9. Experience in Asynchronous design patterns
10. Demonstrated experience working across both commercially off the shelf and custom built applications
11. Exposure to Google and Azure infrastructure that is used in modern web architecture
12. Exposure to MS SQL server, MySql performance tuning and to design with NoSQL
13. Worked with Modern JavaScript (React) Web Framework, Modern Node Web framework and Modern Java and/or .Net
What's in it for you
We embrace diversity of thought and love to take on challenges with a pragmatic and innovative approach. Our culture thrives on mutual respect, care, curiosity, openness, and a proactive attitude. We continually seek ways to pair, collaborate, support, and learn from each other as a team!
Endless possibilities with Woolworths Group
We’re a proud part of the Woolworths Group – 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives working together connected by a shared Purpose – ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’
Here you’ll be supported and empowered to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week. Backed by a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and the support to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.
Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.
We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.