Principal Engineer

About Us

JB Hi-Fi is one of Australasia’s largest and most trusted retailers. Specialising in consumer electronics, home entertainment, small appliances and white goods, JB Hi-Fi strives to deliver the most extensive range, cheapest prices and genuine service to customers every day.

The heart of our business is our people and we are proud of a culture that fosters teamwork, nurtures talent, encourages individuality and embraces diversity.

Benefits

• Be part of a diverse, collaborative, and supportive team who are passionate about the work we do
• Growth mindset culture with a focus on individual skills and career development
• A flexible work environment and competitive salary package

The Role

Tired of red tape and hitting brick walls trying to make a difference? Then come join us at JB and make enough change to make a meaningful difference in users lives.

Join the team that focuses on Apps, APIs & integrations for inbound & outbound operations of our stores and warehouses. Fulfilment orchestration, order & warehouse management, supplier integration, in store apps - just to name a few. We work on exciting stuff at the scale of 200 stores, 6 warehouses, 8000+ staff, $5B+ sales.

We relish in making change!

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop a strong working understanding of the business and how our systems create value
• Work with the Program Manager and Principal Business Analyst on project & technical roadmaps
• Mentor and Upskill Junior-Senior Software Engineers
• Take ownership of work and responsibility for getting it done
• Design technical solutions with the understanding of work priority, trading off perfection and delivery according to context
• Write and contribute to well designed, testable, efficient production ready code (including CI & CD, automated testing, telemetry)
• Work collaboratively within the team from inception to production & assist other developers (PRs, mentoring, advice)
• Identify risks, issues and improvement opportunities and ensure they are escalated as necessary

Preferred Experience/Qualifications:

• 10+ years of commercial software development
• Exceptional skills in C# and recent .NET versions
• 5+ years experience with Azure, specifically Functions, Service Bus, CosmosDb, SQL
• Excellent skills with GitHub Actions & YAML pipelines
• Experience with React TypeScript / JavaScript
• Strong working knowledge of unit testing for both Backend & Frontend code.
• Skilled at troubleshooting and debugging issues
• Ability to execute on security, performance, and accessibility issues
• Ability to express intent through code, focusing on simplicity and maintainability

About You

• You make an impact wherever you go
• Take initiative and are comfortable making key decisions and trust your judgement
• Thrive in vague and complex situations where the correct path forward isn’t clear
• Enjoy collaborating with peers to deliver the right solution for the context
• You love making a difference
• Will be working for an organisation that trusts small teams to do big things
• We don’t do bureaucracy
• We thrive on personal ownership, initiative, judgement, and decision making within the team
• We like to move quickly and see results in production as soon as possible

What Else?

• People & professional development is important to us
• We have partnered with Microsoft for Enterprise training
• We offer online training courses using well known providers
• We have an intern program
• We do in store working visits & warehouse tours to help you become familiar with our systems & processes