Principal Engineer - Mobile

Brisbane, QLD, Melbourne, VIC, Sydney, NSW, Australia

We provide technology infrastructure and services to deliver the full range of financial services including mortgages, asset finance, insurances and financial planning across Australia and New Zealand. Our operational focus is to provide efficient enabling technology, managing information strategically, and expanding and improving our service delivery.

We are agile and fast moving and yet we have the benefits of working in a larger organisation with the resources and financial ballast for innovation and the opportunity to work on large scale, complex systems

This role is responsible for development and maintenance of software created by Loan Market Group targeting mobile and tablet devices. In particular:

• Technical leadership


• Production operations


• Software and cloud infrastructure improvement and maintenance


• Guide the technical decisions made and implemented across all products created by the team.


• Lead, by example and as a mentor, other team members towards a positive development culture.


• Develop higher-order, SaaS like mobile friendly software modules for consumption by Loan Market franchisees, customers and third parties


• Refine live software products based on performance metrics and customer feedback.


• Validate new product concepts with rapid prototyping.


• Act as a technically minded, hands on team lead and mentor for both local and remote development teams


• Responsible and accountable for overall quality, stability and performance of the software delivered by the engineering teams led.


• Contribute to a technology ecosystem of in house software, purchased products and 3rd party integrations.


• Provide technical support to the customers and customer facing corporate staff that use our software.


• Proactively learn new skills and technology that can advance product development within the team.


• Bring your curiosity and we will give you freedom, influence and responsibility

• Academic qualifications preferred, not essential - Bachelor in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar.


• Extensive experience developing complex mobile app and adaptive web based software in a team environment


• Curious


• Autonomous


• Understands software is a team sport


• Interested in the business models of software products, not just the technical challenges of programming