Construction Cadet: Start Your Career On The Gold Coast

5Point Collective Pty; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac Group in Gold Coast is seeking a Principal Engineer (Full Stack – Java) to lead hands-on technical direction across architecture, engineering practices and capabilities for customer communications platforms. You will guide teams from architecture through to production, shaping scalable, secure services.

You will design APIs and event patterns, drive observability and resilience, and mentor senior engineers while partnering with Product, Data, Cyber and Architecture teams to explore AI

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on leadership of cross-functional engineering teams.
• Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot with frontend TS experience.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms, CI/CD, and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, engineering practices and capabilities.
• Design reusable APIs and event patterns for scalable systems.
• Mentor senior engineers and collaborate with Product, Data, Cyber and Architecture teams.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Event-driven architectures

API-first architectures

Cloud & platform engineering

CI/CD

IaC

Agentic AI & automation

Observability & reliability

Technical leadership

Job description

Principal Engineer (Full Stack –Java) Gold Coast based

Surfers Paradise Westpac Group

Job Description

Describe your best future and join as a Principal Engineer (Full Stack – Java).

• Location: Gold Coast based only
• On-site Requirement: 2 days per week in the office
• Why On-site? This role involves working closely with teams and stakeholders, with regular face-to-face meetings and collaboration, making an in-office presence important.

What’s the role?

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll provide hands‑on technical leadership for Communication Intelligence, shaping the architecture, engineering practices and capabilities that support timely, secure and reliable customer communications across multiple channels. You’ll work across customer engagement platforms, data, decisioning, integrations and operational services, guiding teams from architecture through to production.

Additionally, you’ll design reusable APIs, event patterns, platform services and automation, while improving scalability, observability, resilience and traceability. You’ll help modernise the communication ecosystem, reduce reliance on legacy platforms and strengthen security, privacy, consent and governance across the communication lifecycle.

You will lead key technical decisions, drive engineering standards and support major incident resolution. You’ll also mentor senior engineers, partner with Product, Data, Cyber, Risk and Architecture teams, and explore AI and automation opportunities to improve engineering productivity, operational efficiency and customer communication delivery.

What do I need?

• Strong full-stack engineering experience, with hands‑on expertise in Java, Spring Boot and TypeScript are essential.
• Deep experience designing and building large-scale, distributed enterprise platforms supporting high-volume, business-critical services.
• Strong knowledge of event-driven and API-first architectures, including streaming, asynchronous processing, integrations and failure handling.
• Experience with cloud and platform engineering, including containerised workloads, CI/CD, infrastructure as code and automation.
• Experience designing and implementing Agentic AI and intelligent automation, including AI agents and automated workflows in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of observability, reliability and resilience, including monitoring, performance, incident management and disaster recovery.
• Proven technical leadership across multiple engineering teams, with the ability to remain hands‑on, review code, influence architecture and mentor senior engineers.

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help you grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to give back to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.