Senior Software Engineer

As a business inside one of Australia's largest retailers, WooliesX aims to bring the best of Woolworths Group to our customers.

We're an innovation business that brings together the brightest minds in e-commerce, technology, media, and data to transform how people live and shop. With an industry-leading technology team backed by analytics, we're resourceful and willing to experiment. Our agile teams are empowered to innovate and deliver an excellent experience for our customers - whether they shop in-store or online.

Senior Software Engineer

Take ownership of the IaaC
Partner with multiple squads to collaborate and drive innovation
Surry Hills based with hybrid working


Welcome to WooliesX

As a business inside one of Australia's largest retailers, WooliesX aims to bring the best of Woolworths Group to our customers.

We're an innovation business that brings together the brightest minds in e-commerce, technology, media, and data to transform how people live and shop. With an industry-leading technology team backed by analytics, we're resourceful and willing to experiment. Our agile teams are empowered to innovate and deliver an excellent experience for our customers - whether they shop in-store or online.

What you’ll do

You'll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale, high-traffic backend systems for the Woolworths online platform that supports millions of weekly active users across Australia & New Zealand. This role is within the Plan and Shop domain with a squad that focuses on building healthy tech foundations.

Work collaboratively with architects, technical leads, UX, product owners and analysts in an Agile environment and provide guidance throughout the process.
Participate in the technical delivery of the squad, from designing solutions to deploying them and ensuring correct operation.
Architect, design and lead the implementation of reusable libraries across the product and organisation whilst actively contributing to our DevOps processes around CI/CD practices and tools.
Continuously improve our processes and train and coach more junior development team members on UI development engineering best practices.
Working with API services and related microservices and performing improvement and optimisation

What you’ll bring

As an experienced Engineer you will have previous experience supporting as a Platform and Software Engineer. This role will be a mix of roughly 60% platform Engineering and 40% API Development

Experience with cloud-based infrastructure automation, preferentially Azure automation including Event streaming, service bus or message queues (Azure Event Hubs/Service Bus, Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar)
Strong experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, DevOps, automation
Working with Docker containers & Terraform pipelines
Strong experience in NodeJS,Typescript and GraphQL and experience with .Net is advantageous
Solid experience with REST APIs and understanding of web security (OWASP TOP10, etc.)
What you’ll experience


A progressive and flexible ‘work from anywhere’ policy that gives you more control over your work, life and wellbeing
Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work
Market leading Chapter Time, giving you 1 day within the working week to learn whilst you earn!
Endless possibilities with Woolworths Group


We’re a proud part of the Woolworths Group – 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives working together connected by a shared Purpose – ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’


Here you’ll be supported and empowered to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week. Backed by a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and the support to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group


Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.


We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.

You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or via www.wowcareers.com.au . #LI
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