Principal Developer

Job description

We’re a leading business management solution with a core purpose: helping more businesses in Australia and New Zealand start, survive and succeed. At MYOB, we believe what’s good for one business is good for all business—and for all of us. Whether you support them, work for them, or dream of building your own, when businesses run smoothly, everybody feels it. Owners, employees, customers, suppliers—even families. That’s why we’re here: to give every person in business the tools they need to focus on what really matters and do Big Things—whatever big looks like for them. And for you? Joining MYOB means being part of that impact. It means using your skills to help businesses thrive, shaping the future of work, and growing alongside the people and communities we support. Because while we’re the business of software, we’re really in the business of people. And that makes MYOB Everyone’s Business. ## About the role As a Principal Developer within our Data & AI team, you’ll help shape the technical direction, architecture and quality of the products we build. This is a highly influential, hands-on role where you’ll write production-ready code, solve complex engineering challenges and work across multiple product teams to deliver scalable, well-designed solutions that create meaningful outcomes for our customers. Beyond the code, you’ll be a practitioner coach who helps strengthen engineering capability across MYOB. You’ll mentor developers, champion modern development practices and support teams to adopt AI-assisted engineering and automation tools in ways that improve software quality, delivery and developer experience. ## Key responsibilities - Provide technical leadership across multiple product development teams, helping guide architecture, design and engineering quality - Design, build, test and support product applications end-to-end while remaining a hands-on contributor to production-ready code - Develop scalable solutions incorporating AI capabilities, including LLM integrations, agentic workflows and intelligent automation - Champion engineering practices such as test-driven development, automated testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery - Coach and mentor developers and senior developers, building capability and fostering a strong culture of craftsmanship - Collaborate with product, architecture, engineering and delivery stakeholders to turn business requirements into effective technical solutions - Guide the safe and practical adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools in line with MYOB’s engineering, security and compliance standards ## What we’d love to see from you - Extensive experience as a Developer or Senior Developer, with strong hands-on coding capability across the full software development lifecycle - Deep knowledge of software design principles, architecture patterns and practices such as TDD, BDD, DDD, clean code and refactoring - Experience designing and evolving large-scale product applications with a focus on quality, scalability and long-term maintainability - Strong capability across development languages and technologies such as .NET, JavaScript and TypeScript - Experience delivering cloud-based solutions using Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services - A track record of coaching and mentoring engineers, with the communication and influencing skills to lift capability across multiple teams - Working knowledge of AI-assisted software development tools, automation approaches, web services and third-party integrations