Principal Software Engineer

Overview / About the Role

Join a budding start-up SaaS company on a mission to transform how businesses simplify and automate their bookkeeping and accounting. As our Principal Software Developer, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our platform, driving innovation, and ensuring delivery excellence.

This role is both strategic and hands-on — ideal for a senior engineering leader who thrives on turning business objectives into scalable, elegant software solutions. You’ll be a key bridge between technical teams, product management, and executive stakeholders, guiding architecture decisions, mentoring developers, and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within scope.

Your leadership will directly influence the next generation of our platform’s evolution — ensuring stability, scalability, and innovation as we continue to expand.

The company is based in Australia and you will be expected to cross over with Australian stakeholders and working hours. (ie. Be available from 8 : 30am – 12 : 30pm IST).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead full-stack development across the SaaS platform, ensuring performance, scalability, and code quality.
• Translate business requirements into detailed technical briefs, user stories, and tasks — aligning product vision with development execution.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to manage expectations, scope, budgets, and delivery timelines.
• Design and oversee technical architecture for a modern SaaS ecosystem, ensuring security, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Integrate with third-party APIs , predominantly Xero accounting platform, ensuring seamless and secure data flow.
• Mentor and manage a remote development team , promoting best practices in agile methodologies (Scrum, sprints, retrospectives, etc.).
• Own the development pipeline , from planning and prioritization through deployment and maintenance.
• Champion clean, modular, and scalable codebases, enforcing coding standards, CI / CD practices, and rigorous testing.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, and operations to deliver technically sound and customer-centric solutions.
• Continuously optimize systems architecture and development processes for speed, quality, and efficiency.

Key Skills & Experience

Qualifications / Preferred Experience

Benefits / What We Offer

Ready to Lead?

If you’re an experienced technical leader who loves solving complex problems, guiding high-performing teams, and building products that scale — we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now to join a company where your technical leadership drives innovation and real business results.

All applications require you to share your resume and relevant working experience. Only successful candidates will be contacted.