About the Role:
Great prospect for a Staff Engineer to join the Digital Wealth team in one Australia's most successful digital organisations. You will bring extensive technical expertise and a pragmatic approach to software design and architecture. This role combines principal engineering, technical architecture and people leadership, with a strong focus on building outstanding software and solving complex technology challenges.
What We're Looking For:
Strong technical background, preferably in Java, with a computer science education or equivalent experience
Proven success leading complex engineering initiatives and collaborating effectively across teams
Experience building scalable, maintainable and performant web applications within an Agile product environment
Strong hands-on coding, system design and code review experience across diverse services and platforms
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively across all levels of an organisation
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to simplify and optimise complex processes and evaluate emerging technologies
Demonstrated leadership and mentoring capability, with a focus on developing high-performing engineering teams
Strong understanding of code quality, rigorous testing practices and robust security standards




Experience partnering with product managers to align engineering initiatives with strategic business objectives
Expertise in application reliability, uptime management, incident response and post-mortem analysis
What You'll Be Doing:
Taking technical ownership of products and platforms across design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance
Solving complex technical problems through hands-on coding and providing close technical direction to engineering teams
Leading system design and making pragmatic architectural decisions across diverse services and platforms
Providing technical leadership on complex technology issues across the organisation
Mentoring engineers and contributing to their ongoing technical growth
Supporting hiring and helping build high-performing, psychologically safe engineering teams
Partnering with product managers to ensure engineering initiatives support strategic business objectives
Maintaining high standards of code quality, testing, security, reliability and performance
Driving continuous improvement through incident response, post-mortem analysis and ongoing optimisation
Researching and implementing emerging technologies where they can improve engineering outcomes
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📌 Staff Engineer (New South Wales)
🏢 Preacta Recruitment
📍 New South Wales