Tech Lead Engineer | 12month Max Term Slater and Gordon Lawyers are a leading personal injury and class actions law firm where every member of our team has a shared passion for our clients: we are people caring for people. Our commitment to our people includes offering genuine work-life balance, with a hybrid work environment allowing them to split their time between home and the office. We recognise and reward high performance and have outstanding employee benefits including a week of shutdown leave, paid parental leave, extra-long service leave, together with various ongoing learning and professional development opportunities. About the role We are seeking an experienced and highly capable Principal Engineer to lead the technical design, development and delivery of cloud-native enterprise platforms and application through direct, hand-on contribution. This is an IC-level role that would need a seasonal technical leader, active in writing, reviewing, and debugging production code alongside the rest of the engineering team. High standards for code quality, solid working knowledge of architecture and design principles would be required to be successful in this role. You will proactively participate in setting engineering direction, influencing architecture, uplifting development practices and mentoring fellow engineers across the business. Working across both on premises and cloud hosted environments, you will play a key role in modernising our platforms, strengthening engineering standards and ensuring our systems remain secure, scalable and highly available. What you’ll do Lead the technical design and delivery of modern cloud-native applications Define architectural direction and ensure solutions are secure, scalable and maintainable Drive modernisation of legacy on premises systems and cloud hosted services Provide senior technical leadership across engineering teams through mentoring and coaching Establish and uplift engineering standards, coding practices and quality benchmarks Conduct in depth design, code, performance and security reviews What you’ll bring You will bring deep technical expertise in .NET or Node.JS, alongside strong experience building and supporting enterprise grade applications. You would have solid commercial experience building and operating production-grade, distributed systems, combined with deep understanding of cloud architecture concepts across compute, networking, identity, data, security, and resilience. You need to have practical experience with serverless and event-driven architectures and demonstrated ability to design effective data persistence solutions (SQL and NoSQL), including data partitioning and key strategies. Recent experience with Azure and Cosmos DB is strongly desirable. What next? If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to Slater and Gordon. We prefer to talk with you personally and are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies. To be eligible for this position, you must be an Australian citizen, a permanent resident, or hold a valid visa with full and unrestricted working rights in Australia. Proof of work rights will be required as part of the Slater and Gordon application process. Acknowledgement of Country Slater and Gordon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations peoples today. Diversity Inclusion Slater and Gordon is committed to creating an inclusive workplace that values diversity and ensures equal opportunities for all. Slater and Gordon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes. We understand that everyone has different needs. If you require reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let us know in your application. Apply now Share Save Job
