Principal Engineer

Join to apply for the Principal Engineer role at Slyp

1 day ago Be among the first 25 applicants

Join to apply for the Principal Engineer role at Slyp

Step into the future with Slyp and be a part of revolutionising the transaction experience. As Australia's first-ever independent scale up backed by all four major Australian Banks, we're leading the way in transaction enrichment innovation. Our multi award-winning tech platform has transformed the buying experience by seamlessly embedding loyalty, rewards, and digital receipts into the payment process. We believe loyalty is broken due to fragmentation and friction, that's why we are building Loyalty 2.0 to redefine the loyalty customer experience.

Asa Principal Software Engineeryou will be a technical North Star for multiple projects building high-throughput, low-latency services that process millions of receipts and loyalty events daily. You'll help shape engineering standards, steer architecture decisions and ship production code every week.Reporting to the CTO, you'll run a team of 3-5 engineers.

Responsibilities

• Run technical feasibility and system design discussions, ensuring alignment with our overall technical strategy.
• Lead a cross-functional squad of engineers through sprint planning, code reviews and retros.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap for our event-driven AWS stack (EKS, Aurora Postgres, SNS, SQS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Cognito).
• Coach senior and junior engineers; champion clean code, automated testing and CI/CD best practice.
• Support the coordination of multiple streams of work, ensuring integrated solutions and minimising bottlenecks across projects.
• Partner with Design, Product & Data to create new AI-driven personalisation features across our product lines
• Contribute to the integration of AI tooling into engineering workflows, fostering an AI-first mindset across the team, and provide coaching on AI best practices.
• Foster a culture of constructive feedback and an environment of trust and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building distributed systems (currently only accepting expertise in Node.js/TypeScript).
• Startup/Scaleup experience is a must.
• Technical planning skills and desire to coach engineers.
• Deep expertise in AWS, IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform), CI/CD and observability.
• Proven track record making pragmatic product decisions and driving large-scale refactors.
• Proven experience in leveraging AI tools and technologies for engineering processes, with a strong AI-driven mindset.
• Ability to coach and mentor staff engineers on adopting AI practices to enhance productivity and innovation.
• Clear, empathetic communication - from team collaboration to one-on-one feedback.
• Experience operating in fintech, retail, loyalty or payments is a plus.

Seniority level

• Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment typeFull-time

Job function

• Job functionEngineering and Information Technology
• IndustriesMarketing Services

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Slyp by 2x

Get notified about new Principal Engineer jobs in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

2025 Software Development Graduate (AWS, Auckland,NZ), (0-2 Years, Entry-Level)

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 days ago

Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity, Android, Early CareerSoftware Engineer - Frontend (Open to remote across ANZ)

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia A$99,938.00-A$110,271.00 3 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 weeks ago

Software Engineer, Early Career, iOS, Photos

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 6 days ago

Frontend Software Engineer - CMS Team (Open Across ANZ)

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 8 hours ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 6 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia A$120,000.00-A$150,000.00 2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1 month ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 6 months ago

Software Development Graduate (2025, AWS)

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 6 days ago

Lane Cove West, New South Wales, Australia 3 weeks ago

Software Engineering Internship (Dec 2025 - March 2026)

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia A$100,000.00-A$185,000.00 7 hours ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia A$85,000.00-A$100,000.00 4 weeks ago

Software Engineer, Google Global NetworkingSoftware Engineer, Platform - Sydney, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 4 days ago

Software Engineering Internship (Dec 2025 - March 2026)Software Engineering Internship (Dec 2025 - March 2026)

Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia 1 hour ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 5 months ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia A$80,000.00-A$120,000.00 3 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1 month ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 4 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 months ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1 month ago

We're unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.

#J-18808-Ljbffr

---