Principal Developer

About the role

As a Principal Developer within our Data & AI team, you’ll help shape the technical direction, architecture and quality of the products we build. This is a highly influential, hands-on role where you’ll write production-ready code, solve complex engineering challenges and work across multiple product teams to deliver scalable, well-designed solutions that create meaningful outcomes for our customers.

Beyond the code, you’ll be a practitioner coach who helps strengthen engineering capability across MYOB. You’ll mentor developers, champion modern development practices and support teams to adopt AI-assisted engineering and automation tools in ways that improve software quality, delivery and developer experience.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across multiple product development teams, helping guide architecture, design and engineering quality
• Design, build, test and support product applications end-to-end while remaining a hands-on contributor to production-ready code
• Develop scalable solutions incorporating AI capabilities, including LLM integrations, agentic workflows and intelligent automation
• Champion engineering practices such as test-driven development, automated testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Coach and mentor developers and senior developers, building capability and fostering a strong culture of craftsmanship
• Collaborate with product, architecture, engineering and delivery stakeholders to turn business requirements into effective technical solutions
• Guide the safe and practical adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools in line with MYOB’s engineering, security and compliance standards

What we’d love to see from you

• Extensive experience as a Developer or Senior Developer, with strong hands-on coding capability across the full software development lifecycle
• Deep knowledge of software design principles, architecture patterns and practices such as TDD, BDD, DDD, clean code and refactoring
• Experience designing and evolving large-scale product applications with a focus on quality, scalability and long-term maintainability
• Strong capability across development languages and technologies such as .NET, JavaScript and TypeScript
• Experience delivering cloud-based solutions using Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services
• A track record of coaching and mentoring engineers, with the communication and influencing skills to lift capability across multiple teams
• Working knowledge of AI-assisted software development tools, automation approaches, web services and third-party integrations