Principal Software Engineer - Sydney OR Melbourne

Overview

We’re partnering with a market-leading, quick-growing employee perks and financial services business as they continue to invest in and scale their technology function.

They’re looking for an experienced Principal Engineer to play a key role in shaping their engineering capability, architecture and technology direction.

The Role

As the Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
Shaping and influencing the organisation’s technical vision and engineering strategy
Mentoring and developing senior engineers, helping raise technical capability across the team
Driving the adoption of AI-assisted development and contemporary engineering practices across the organisation
Leading complex, cross‑functional initiatives and defining scalable software architectures
Providing technical mentorship, establishing best practices and championing engineering excellence
Hands-on full-stack engineering, contributing across both front-end and back-end development while helping solve complex technical challenges.




Collaborating with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust solutions
Influencing hiring decisions and helping shape a high‑performance engineering culture

What You'll Bring You must have this experience to be successful in the role:
10+ years software engineering experience with 3+ years in technical leadership
Expert-level .NET expertise, with strong experience designing and building scalable applications
Strong TypeScript and React.js experience, with a hands-on approach to full-stack development
Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure preferred), SQL Server, Redis and observability tools (Datadog, LaunchDarkly)
Proven track record delivering large‑scale, distributed systems and driving process improvements
Strong communication, collaboration and problem‑solving skills
Hands‑on experience with AI‑assisted dev tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude) and LLM API integration

📌 Principal Engineer Sydney
🏢 Latitude IT
📍 Sydney