Principal Engineer

Job Description:

About us!

Sportsbet's purpose is to bring excitement to life for its customers and we do this by over delivering on excitement through serious fun, disrupting the status quo and living our values. We’re a flexible, progressive, open-minded, and inclusive employer with over 7000 cool, clever and curious people around the world. We’re a global player, but in Melbourne, Sydney and Darwin we’re tight knit, with 1000 of us bringing excitement to life every day.

Our commitment to responsible gambling is genuine and demonstrated through the wide range of responsible gambling initiatives and tools – take a look: https://responsiblegambling.sportsbet.com.au/hc/en-us

About the role

Here at Sportsbet our Principal Engineers play a key leadership role in influencing the direction of shared capabilities, development practices and standards across the entire organization. Working with development teams to design and implement best practices for our new and existing platforms, our Principal Engineers take ownership of technology & tooling for effective and innovative product development.

Be ready to fight for improvement, make compromises and celebrate your glorious victories!

About You

We’re looking for highly motivated individual, passionate, with excellent stakeholder engagement who will be empowered to innovate, coordinate and collaborate across the entire services community at Sportsbet. Join us and develop solutions to a wide variety of interesting and challenging engineering problems, guaranteeing the health of Sportsbet’s most valuable customer platforms.

Key requirements include:

• Provide technical leadership in terms of design and adoption of solution architectures, coding expertise, governance best practices and subject matter expertise
• Break complex problems into essential parts, drawing logical conclusions based on the evidence and data, clearly articulating the process and reasoning to upskills others
• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment to broader Technology Strategy.
• Understand the long-term implications of technical decisions and can prioritize initiatives accordingly to drive organizational success.
• Previous experience developing and supporting scalable, maintainable, and performance-critical software
• Previous experience in multiple technical domains with a demonstrated ability to influence design and delivery of complex technical solutions

The Perks

We don’t expect you to do all this for free, so along with a very competitive salary we will also provide you with:

• 25 days annual leave (a whole extra week of holidays)
• Tailored career development programs, as well as a commitment to developing Thought Leader and Specialist Talent programs
• Genuine flexible working and remote working policy
• Discounted gym memberships, free breakfast and loads of event and conference tickets and many more
• Best in class Parental Leave program with six months paid leave for Primary Carers

Sportsbet is committed to ensuring we create employment opportunities that suit your lifestyle. We’re open to discussing how this role might be performed in a part-time basis

We’re a flexible, progressive, open-minded, and inclusive employer who welcomes you for who you are, as you are.

If this all sounds good, then we can’t wait to connect with you… so please apply now!

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