Principal Software Engineer – AI-Driven SaaS & Mobile

Obzervr; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Obzervr in Brisbane is seeking a Lead Engineer to guide our Engineering team on a hybrid basis. This full-time, hands-on leadership role involves design reviews, coaching, and setting how engineers work with AI coding agents.

You will report to the Engineering Manager, with a dotted line to the Founder for technical direction. You will co-author engineering principles and help keep our field-work management platform correct, maintainable, performant and secure, with a focus on scalable cloud,

Qualifications

• Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple production systems.
• Experience with AI coding agents and reviewing output.
• Strong design fundamentals: API, data design, security and performance.
• Ability to work in short cycles, seek feedback and adapt.
• Experience with cloud-based, multi-tenant B2B SaaS is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across platform areas: cloud SaaS, mobile app, and integration engines.
• Review complex PRs and designs, including AI-generated changes.
• Spend 20-30% of time hands-on building and solving hard problems.
• Co-author and apply engineering principles with leadership teams.
• Coach engineers to grow design and review skills.
• Define how engineers direct and review AI coding agents.

Skills

Technical leadership

AI coding agents

Code reviews coaching

Software design fundamentals

CI/CD & testing

Hands-on development

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Node/TypeScript

Angular

Cloudflare Workers

Azure

.NET/C#

Azure SQL

Job description

Obzervr in Brisbane is seeking a Lead Engineer to guide our Engineering team on a hybrid basis. This full-time, hands-on leadership role involves design reviews, coaching, and setting how engineers work with AI coding agents.

You will report to the Engineering Manager, with a dotted line to the Founder for technical direction. You will co-author engineering principles and help keep our field-work management platform correct, maintainable, performant and secure, with a focus on scalable cloud,