Principal Software Engineer

What You'll Be Doing

Technical Strategy & Architecture

• Define and execute engineering strategy across multiple teams and domains.
• Drive architectural decisions that balance business priorities, scalability, security and long-term sustainability.
• Design solutions that support future growth and evolving customer needs.
• Identify and address technical risks across the organisation.

Engineering Excellence

• Establish and evolve engineering standards, best practices and quality frameworks.
• Drive improvements in performance, reliability, security and developer productivity.
• Champion modern software engineering principles and continuous improvement.
• Support the evolution of platform, infrastructure and service architecture.

AI & Emerging Technology

• Lead the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies and AI capabilities.
• Drive the integration of AI tools and practices that enhance engineering effectiveness.
• Explore and implement modern AI-powered development workflows, coding assistants and agentic systems.
• Help shape PEXA's approach to AI innovation and organisational adoption.

Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor and coach engineers across all levels, from emerging talent to senior technical leaders.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, curiosity and continuous learning.
• Lead technical discussions, knowledge-sharing initiatives and engineering communities of practice.
• Contribute to hiring and technical assessment processes.

Collaboration & Business Impact

• Partner with Product, Design and Business leaders to align technical strategy with organisational goals.
• Translate business objectives into technical roadmaps and engineering outcomes.
• Influence decision-making at executive level through clear communication and technical insight.
• Represent PEXA externally within the technology community and industry forums.

About You

You're a highly experienced technologist who combines deep technical expertise with strategic thinking and business acumen.

You thrive on solving complex problems at scale, influencing engineering direction, and helping others grow.

You'll bring:

• Significant experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• A track record of defining technical strategy and driving organisation-wide engineering outcomes.
• Strong experience working across multiple teams, platforms and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to balance technical excellence with commercial priorities.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation.

Technical Expertise

You'll bring deep expertise across modern software engineering practices and technologies, including:

• Node.js, Python and Kotlin
• Modern frontend technologies
• Cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure
• Microservices and distributed architectures
• Containerisation and cloud-native development
• Security architecture and secure software development practices
• Performance, scalability and reliability engineering

You'll also have a strong interest in the rapidly evolving AI landscape, including:

• AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cline and Amazon Q
• Agentic AI frameworks and orchestration platforms
• Modern approaches to context engineering and AI-enhanced developer productivity
• Evaluating and adopting emerging AI technologies within engineering organisations

Nice to Have

• Experience within financial services, property technology or other regulated industries.
• Exposure to DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Platform Engineering environments.
• Knowledge of AI frameworks and technologies including Anthropic Claude, LangGraph, Hugging Face, LiteLLM or Pydantic AI.