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Principal Engineer

Pet Circle

Pet Circle

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Software Engineering
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2023
At Pet Circle, we want to create a world where pets and their families are healthy, happy and spend more time together - and we are looking for fantastic people to help us do that!
Over the past ten years, we’ve scaled to become one of Australia's Top 5 eCommerce companies and the No.1 player in the Online Pet industry. We will accelerate our growth as we continue on our mission to disrupt the way that pet parents discover & shop for the products they love.
The pet industry is booming (it’s a $15billion dollar industry!) and pets are holding bigger spaces in our hearts and homes than ever before. Online penetration of the pet industry is going to grow exponentially in the next 5 years. This is a unique opportunity in your career to be part of our exceptional growth story!
Founded and headquartered in Sydney, our team is now over 700 people strong and are based across Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines.
The Opportunity
Are you a visionary Engineering Leader with a passion for creating world-class teams and driving the continuous improvement of development processes? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity for you! We're looking for a Senior Principal Engineer who will guide our team on aligned architectural and long-term engineering decisions, as well as shorter-term trade-offs. You'll lead the development of high-quality software engineering practices and maintain our high standards of excellence. You'll also be the voice of the business within your team, and the voice of Engineering to the business, keeping everyone informed and working towards our shared goals. In this role you'll be leading a passionate team and further fostering our culture of engineering excellence. You'll play a critical role in leading the recruiting of new engineers, raising the bar and building a world-class engineering team. You'll also provide thought leadership on how to improve our platforms, processes, and tooling, and drive the adoption of new technologies to improve our practices and processes for development and testing.
Day to Day
The key aspects of this role are fostering high performance, executing on delivery and building out our roadmap.
- Work with the VP of Engineering, Director of Cloud Reliability, Principal Architect, Engineering Leads and Product Managers to co-create the technical vision, strategy and technology roadmap
- Work with the delivery team to coordinate the delivery of large business wide initiatives that have multiple connected touch points across multiple functions
- Contribute to building and supporting our business strategy
- Demonstrate tangible value through the outcomes you deliver
- Subject matter domain expert capable of working with other engineering leaders to solve problems at scale
- Drive adoption of best practice and best in class technology, design best practices, enforce engineering practices
- Responsible for the technical decision making and architecture across your portfolio of teams
- Can clearly design and communicate a technical roadmap to the organisation with proof of value

About You

  • 5+ years of engineering leadership experience building high performing and autonomous teams
  • Previous experience in a hands-on software development role, 10+ years (Ideally within a Java/GCP environment)
  • Experience within a Retail/eComm environment is highly regarded
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels of the business
  • Bias to getting things done and effecting organisational change
  • Ability to handle competing priorities
  • Passion for technology
  • Proven track record of delivering large engineering initiatives
  • You can articulate business value through visualisation tools and applicable data points.
  • A passion for automation, orchestration and leaving nothing to be manual

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