About the Company

Join a leading organisation within the Australian banking sector, recognized as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps. Our client has a vision of becoming Australia's leading digital business bank, empowering businesses and people to succeed with tomorrow's technology.

About the Role

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across the strategic platforms that underpin the client's capabilities. You will play a key role in shaping the engineering direction for core Lending platforms and supporting services, driving platform modernisation, AI-enabled engineering practices and resilient, scalable solutions that support the bank's lending operations.

You will bring deep technical expertise, strategic thinking and engineering leadership to help teams deliver high-quality technology safely at scale while partnering with Product, Architecture, Risk and business stakeholders to deliver meaningful outcomes.

In this role, you will:

- Lead the technical direction for strategic platforms.
- Provide architectural leadership across core platforms and the surrounding integration ecosystem.
- Design scalable, secure and resilient services across APIs,



backend platforms and enterprise integrations.
- Champion engineering excellence including AI-enabled SDLC, DevSecOps, observability, quality engineering and automation.
- Build strong working relationships with the suppliers of our core platforms.
- Mentor senior engineers and uplift engineering capability across the crew.

About You

- Software engineering with technical leadership and coaching across multiple teams and strategic platforms.
- Experience delivering technology for financial services platforms.
- Experience with LoanIQ or comparable enterprise lending platforms is highly regarded.
- Solid understanding of enterprise integration, operational resilience and regulated environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Passion for mentoring engineers and adopting AI-enabled engineering practices.

Technical Skills

- Engineering: Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices, Python, Next.js, React
- Cloud & Platforms: AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Cloud-Native Architecture
- Data & Streaming: SQL, NoSQL, Data Products, Oracle, Snowflake, Event Streaming
- DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Snyk
- AI: Agentic AI architecture, AI-enabled engineering tools and Agentic SDLC

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📌 Principal Engineer (New South Wales)
🏢 Davidson
📍 New South Wales