Sydney based role with hybrid working
Drive innovation across our technical capabilities
Surry Hills office location, right next to Central and public transport
Be nothing but yourself in a culture that is inclusive and innovative. Work as part of an ambitious, smart and passionate team and belong to something meaningful as part of the Woolworths Group.
What you'll do
We are looking for a Staff Engineer to serve as a technical beacon for our engineering organization. You will be responsible for the architectural integrity, scalability, and developer experience of our core platforms. This is a role for a systems thinker who excels at solving "impossible" distributed systems problems while maintaining a pragmatic focus on product delivery.You will lead the adoption of modern workflow orchestration (Temporal.io), drive our JVM-based service strategy, and ensure our cloud-native infrastructure on GCP is world-class.
Architectural Stewardship: Design and evolve complex, event-driven architectures that support high-scale data processing and reliable business logic.
Strategy & Influence: Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to define technical roadmaps that balance feature velocity with long-term platform stability.
What You’ll Bring
Bringing 10+ years in software engineering, with recent experience in a "Principal," "Staff," or "Technical Lead" capacity within a high-growth SaaS or product-led company.You have a track record of elevating the engineers around you. You lead by example and through influence rather than authority.
JVM Mastery: Deep expertise in Kotlin and/or Java. You understand the nuances of the JVM, concurrency models, and modern frameworks (Micronaut, Spring Boot, or Ktor).
DevOps Mindset: Proponent of "you build it, you run it." Expert in Git and automating complex delivery workflows with GitHub Actions.
What You’ll Experience
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!
Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
A progressive and flexible ‘work from anywhere' policy that gives you the opportunity to harmonise work, life and your wellbeing.
A range of programs to help you prioritise and manage your wellbeing, including 24/7 access to the Sonder app.
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