Coles Group

Lead Software Engineer

Coles Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Coles SO NSW • 🇦🇺 Australia

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

GraphQLJavaScriptReactTypeScript

About the role

  • As a seasoned engineer, thrive on solving complex problems and navigating the balance between product, design, and engineering priorities.
  • Be part of the Digital Front End platform team, focusing on driving the technical uplift of GraphQL services used by multiple product teams across the business.
  • Shape the architecture, improve developer experience, and ensure the platform scales with growing needs.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale websites
  • Strong proficiency in GraphQL, including advanced schema design and efficient query implementation
  • Expertise in React, JavaScript, TypeScript, REST APIs, and other modern web technologies
  • Proven experience leading technical initiatives and making critical architectural decisions
  • Practical experience with continuous delivery pipelines
  • Solid understanding and experience with agile development methodologies
  • Experience building GraphQL services with TypeScript and RTK Query
  • Knowledge of microservice design principles
  • Experience implementing or contributing to a Federated GraphQL architecture
  • Active participation in developer communities or Guilds, with experience presenting technical topics
  • A strong desire to contribute to our developer tooling and community
  • Experience with (or a keen willingness to learn) build automation pipelines
  • An eagerness to learn and gain exposure to diverse systems and technologies
Benefits
  • Flexible working options: We know that work is only one part of your life, so we actively encourage a positive work-life balance and provide hybrid working options to help you achieve it.
  • Office perks: Take advantage of our gym facility and fitness classes, free parking, BBQ area, mini-Coles supermarket, fooderie hub where you can sample new products before they hit the shelves, school holiday program and so much more when you come in.
  • Discounts: Eligible team members receive 5% discount all year round on your Supermarket and Liquor online and in-store purchases. We also offer additional periods of double discount (10%) at various times throughout the year. As well as hotdeals exclusive to team members that translate into additional savings.
  • Reward through recognition: Give and receive recognition, linked to our Coles values, through our digital recognition platform ‘mythanks’. You can accumulate points to redeem in the online shop for exciting gifts and electronic gift cards from an extensive range of retailers.
  • Opportunities for learning and development: No matter where you start within our diverse business, you’ll have experiences, exposure, and education to satisfy you. Discover and explore a variety of career development programs and job-specific training.
  • Paid parental leave: We understand how important your life outside work is and offer permanent team members paid parental leave to support you in balancing work and family.
  • Investment in your future: Our annual team member share plan offer allows eligible team members to make regular pre-tax salary sacrifice deductions to purchase Coles Group shares.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
GraphQLReactJavaScriptTypeScriptREST APIscontinuous delivery pipelinesagile development methodologiesmicroservice design principlesFederated GraphQL architecturebuild automation pipelines
Soft skills
problem solvingleadershipcommunicationcollaborationtechnical presentation