Principal Engineer

Who are we? We are Australasia’s largest privately owned aggregator group, backing more than 6,000 brokers and advisers across Australia and New Zealand. Partnering with over 110 banks and lenders, we support independent businesses alongside our own Loan Market brand. In FY26, our brokers helped over 400,000 people settle over $167 billion in loans and reached a collective loan book of $428 billion, proof of what happens when scale meets real drive. We live our values in everything we do. Compassion for our customers, doing what we say, being curious and thinking openly, going further together. We’re ambitious, but we keep our feet on the ground, always hungry, always humble, and focused on being the absolute best at what we do. We were proud to be named Australian Financial Review BOSS Best Place to Work - Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services & in 2025! About the role - Join our Tech team under the Executive Leadership of Whitney Cali our new Group Executive - Tech, Product and Data. As a team we provide technology infrastructure and services to deliver the full range of financial services including mortgages, asset finance, insurances and financial planning across Australia and New Zealand. Our operational focus is to provide efficient enabling technology, managing information strategically, and expanding and improving our service delivery. We are agile, fast-moving, and operate with an entrepreneurial, startup mindset. We focus on greenfield development, building innovative new products from scratch, and driving high-impact solutions while having the backing, resources, and scale of a larger organisation. This role is responsible for development and maintenance of software created by Loan Market Group. In particular: Technical leadershipEngineering practicesSoftware developmentProduction operationsSoftware and cloud infrastructure improvement and maintenanceTechnical supportRapid prototypingProduct designAgentic development workflow setupGreenfield product development and innovation As a Principal Engineer, your core role is to provide technical leadership and to foster a collaborative and supportive team environment. For further guidance about the role, please refer to: https://github.com/loanmarket/career-ladder/blob/main/Engineering.md Key Responsibilities - Guide the technical decisions made and implemented across all products created by the team.Lead, by example and as a mentor, other team members towards a positive development culture.Develop higher-order, SaaS-like software modules for consumption by broker businesses, end consumers, and third partiesRefine live software products based on performance metrics and customer feedback.Validate new product concepts with rapid prototyping.Act as a technically minded, hands-on team lead and mentor for both local and remote development teamsResponsible and accountable for overall quality, stability and performance of the software delivered by the engineering teams led.Contribute to a technology ecosystem of in-house software, purchased products and 3rd-party integrations.Provide technical support to the customers and customer-facing corporate staff that use our software.Proactively learn new skills and technology that can advance product development within the team.Bring your curiosity and we will give you freedom, influence and responsibilityEstablish and implement AI-driven and agentic development processes across teams.Drive rapid prototyping, greenfield builds, and iterative development in a fast-paced startup environment. To succeed in this role you will bring with you - Academic qualifications preferred, not essential - Bachelor in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar.Extensive experience developing complex web-based software in a team environmentCuriosityBe AutonomousStrong communicationUnderstanding that software is a team sportStrongly product-minded, actively aligning technical execution with product vision, user needs, and business valueAI agentic mindset and adaptability to rapid technological changesProactive willingness to experiment with and evaluate new AI tools, treating failures as valuable learning opportunitiesThrives in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment with a passion for building user-centric software from scratch Must have experience: .NET 8 and ASP.NET;Database design and advanced SQLExperience with a modern web UI framework (React/Angular/Vue)Dev ops - Bash scripting, GitHub Actions, Infra as code (Terraform), AWS and Octopus Deploy;Proven experience setting up and optimising AI-driven and agentic development processes and workflowsHands-on experience delivering greenfield projects and building products from zero to one Desirable experience: Event-driven architecture and abstraction libraries e.g. MassTransit;Containerised Development - Docker Desktop or similar Our benefits - Flexibility & Balance: Hybrid work (min. 2 office days per week, including a team anchor day), 6 additional ‘Me’ leave days, flexible public holiday swaps, and options to purchase additional annual leave.Family & Wellbeing: 16 weeks paid parental leave (plus superannuation support), paid fertility treatment leave, 12 days personal leave, and access to the Sonder wellbeing app.Growth & Development: Dedicated paid study leave and L&D programs for each stage of your careerCommunity: Participation in the Loan Market Group Foundation (with donation matching) and a paid volunteer day. Using AI in your application: At LMG we embrace innovation, and we are comfortable with candidates using AI tools to assist in preparing their application. We encourage you to use these tools to polish your resume but please be mindful that your application should remain an honest representation of your own experience and qualifications. We are keen to get to know your true capabilities and how your specific background aligns with our team, which we will explore further in our conversations and interviews.