Tyro is a leading provider of integrated payments, banking and lending solutions, powering more than 76,000 Australian merchants and partnering with nearly 800 other firms to create seamless experiences across hospitality, retail, services and health sectors.
About The Role
The Principal Engineer is a visionary technical leader who defines and governs the technical architecture across Tyro's end‐to‐end payments ecosystem. This role owns technology direction at an enterprise level, ensuring architectural decisions optimise the complete payments lifecycle – from merchant payment acceptance through to payment orchestration, switching, authorisation and processing, to settlement, reconciliation, reporting and back‐office capabilities. The Principal Engineer drives the adoption of AI‐enabled engineering practices to accelerate software delivery, improve quality, automate operations and strengthen platform resilience across the software development lifecycle.
Enterprise Architecture & Technical Leadership
Define and own the technical architecture across Tyro's end‐to‐end payments ecosystem, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient and reusable.
Drive architectural decisions spanning the complete payments lifecycle, from merchant payment acceptance through switching, processing, settlement and back‐office capabilities.
Establish enterprise architecture patterns, standards and reference implementations that enable consistent delivery across engineering domains.
Champion AI‐enabled engineering practices that improve software delivery, operational efficiency, observability and platform lifecycle management.
Strategy & Technology Governance
Define and execute the long‐term technology strategy aligned with Tyro's business, product and engineering objectives.
Govern architectural decisions to ensure consistency, interoperability and alignment with enterprise technology principles.
Balance immediate delivery needs with long‐term platform evolution, reducing technical complexity while enabling innovation.
Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI, to improve engineering productivity,



platform capabilities and customer outcomes.
Engineering Excellence
Establish engineering standards, modern development practices and operational excellence across multiple engineering domains.
Drive simplification, automation and continuous improvement throughout the software development lifecycle.
Promote resilient, secure and observable system design, ensuring solutions are operationally ready by default.
Foster architectural excellence through mentoring, coaching and technical leadership.
Enterprise Collaboration
Partner with Principal Engineers, Architects, Engineering Leaders and Product Leaders to define enterprise technology direction.
Influence technical outcomes across multiple product areas and engineering teams, resolving complex cross‐domain challenges.
Drive standardisation, reuse and alignment across the organisation while enabling autonomous squad delivery.
Build strong technical communities that encourage knowledge sharing, innovation and continuous learning.
Delivery Enablement
Provide strategic technical leadership for major initiatives spanning multiple products, platforms and engineering domains.
Guide teams in solution design, risk management, dependency resolution and operational readiness.
Support engineering teams in adopting AI‐assisted development, automation and contemporary engineering practices.
Ensure architectural decisions enable rapid, reliable and secure delivery at enterprise scale.
What You'll Bring
Demonstrated experience defining and delivering enterprise architecture across complex, distributed software platforms spanning multiple engineering domains.
Extensive software engineering and system design expertise, with a proven ability to architect resilient,



scalable and secure systems across the end‐to‐end payments lifecycle.
Deep understanding of modern payment architectures, including payment acceptance, orchestration, switching, processing, settlement and back‐office services.
Proven ability to influence technical direction and architectural decisions across multiple product teams, engineering disciplines and business stakeholders.
Experience establishing engineering standards, architecture governance and reusable platform capabilities at organisational scale.
Strong understanding of cloud‐native architectures, distributed systems, platform engineering, API design and event‐driven architectures.
Demonstrated experience embedding AI‐enabled engineering practices and automation across the software development lifecycle to improve productivity, quality and operational outcomes.
Solid understanding of operational excellence, including observability, resilience engineering, incident management and continuous improvement.
Exceptional analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for both technical and executive audiences.
Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop senior engineers, foster engineering excellence and build high‐performing technical communities.
What's in It for You?
Tyro is committed to a diverse, inclusive workplace where everyone thrives. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and are an equal opportunity employer.
You'll Also Receive
A mix of in‐office and remote working (3 days in the office)
Learning and career development opportunities
18 weeks paid primary carers leave
12 weeks paid secondary carers leave
Annual team‐based volunteer day
Birthday leave
Power Up Day (additional day of leave)
Weekly team social events, snacks, craft beer and wine, ping‐pong and video games
Taco Tuesdays
Mental health and wellness initiatives
Novated leasing
If you need accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, simply inform our Talent team during your conversation with them.
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📌 Principal Engineer - Instore & Core Payments (Melbourne)
🏢 Tyro Payments
📍 Melbourne