Principal Engineer

Sydney, NSW
Engineering /
Full time /
Hybrid
Heyyyyy! We're Cashrewards, Australia’s most loved cashback platform. 
 
Shoppers love us, but not just shoppers, our team think we’re pretty awesome too. So much so that they voted and now we’re a certified Great Place to Work. As they say, the proof is in the pudding so check out this role to see if you fancy a slice yourself.  

About the Role

As a Principal Engineer, you will use your technical and interpersonal skills to facilitate and guide the development of trail-blazing innovative solutions. You will build capabilities that are fit for purpose and make the most out of the numerous resources available across the business.

You will contribute to creating an outstanding team culture by role modelling a collaborative approach to working with team members, offering leadership, support, mentoring and guidance, particularly to Engineers. 

Your Focus

    • Design, code, fix and debug software
    • Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders across the organization and third parties produce solutions that meet business requirements.
    • Design and deliver cloud-based solutions, providing technical leadership and mentoring across multiple developer squads, guiding teams as they scale up for transformation delivery.
    • Train, mentor and evangelize best practices to software engineers.
    • Guide conversations to remove blockers and encourage collaboration across teams.
    • Produce and update technical design documentation artefacts
    • Carry out Discovery and POC work to de-risk implementation of new technology initiatives.
    • Assist Solution Architect(s) in decision making and communicating designs to squads

About You

    • Experience in one or more of the following programing languages C#, NodeJs, Javascript
    • Relational Document and NoSQL Databases
    • You will have a background in software development and cloud engineering with exposure to CI/CD tools, cloud platforms & tooling (AWS,GCP or Azure)
    • experience in developing and designing cloud solutions.
    • experience developing high traffic transactional systems.
    • Demonstrated experience in Software engineering - ideally with experience in Finance, FinTech, Retail or eCommerce environments
    • Experience in designing architecture to support front-end customer applications – including web and mobile apps.
    • Experience working on transformation projects from monolithic environments to micro services and serverless based infrastructure would be ideal.
    • Exposure to digital, customer and marketing technologies within architectures is desirable – particularly marketing automation, digital analytics, customer data and mobile notification services

In the fast moving cashback category, Cashrewards has powered ahead of its rivals and taken the lead, serving over 2 million members with an enticing range of cashback offers from more than 2000 brand partners including Apple, Amazon, Myer, Adidas, Bonds, Target, Booking.com and The Iconic. As if that isn’t impressive enough, we’re fully Australian owned and operated, and backed by 1835i, one of Australia's leading venture funds. Plus, we support the Starlight Children's Foundation by donating 1% of all cash redeemed to the foundation.  
 
Another cool thing, we're right smack-bang in the middle of Sydney CBD (next to The Galleries) so we're easy to get to.

There's lots more to love about working here, like:

- Flexible working
- Friday hours (finish at 3pm on Fridays)
- Double cashback
- Free access to Headspace
- Discounted fitness classes and wellness offering
- Birthday leave
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Ability to work up to 90 days a year from anywhere in the world
- Awesome people who you'll get to know at some of our awesome celebrations and social events

​​So if you’re keen to jump on board and help us steer this fine ship into the future, don’t let this opportunity pass you by. ​So jump in, forget FOMO. Join the Cashrewards team today. ​​ 

Check out our careers page https://www.cashrewards.com.au/careers