Lead Software Engineer | South Brisbane

About Fitness and Lifestyle Group:

Fitness and Lifestyle Group (FLG) is the leading fitness, health, and wellness group in the Asia-Pacific region, headquartered in Australia. Our mission is to make a meaningful, positive impact on people's lives through innovative and diverse health and wellness offerings, both physical and digital.

FLG's portfolio includes globally recognised brands such as Fitness First Australia, Goodlife Health Clubs Australia, Jetts Fitness New Zealand Thailand, Zap Fitness, and Barry's. With 31+ locations across Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia, we support over 585,000 members in leading healthier, more active lives.


The opportunity:

We are seeking a talented and motivated Lead Software Engineer to drive the development of sustainable, high-quality software solutions through modern, maintainable engineering practices rooted in Continuous Delivery principles. In this role, you'll play a key part in shaping core engineering efforts across our web and mobile platforms, as well as supporting backend integrations.

Reporting to the Head of Software Engineering, you'll act as an experienced individual contributor while also mentoring peers and other engineers-helping them grow their skills and tackle increasingly complex technical challenges. You'll bring deep knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, and agile methodologies with a strong focus on delivering business value.

This is a unique opportunity to influence the future of our engineering practices, elevate the quality of our software products, and help our teams respond to evolving business needs with speed and agility. The role is hybrid, with a mix of three days per week in our South Brisbane support office and the flexibility to work remotely for the remainder.

If you're passionate about Continuous Delivery, highly maintainable software, and mentoring a team to success, we'd love to hear from you!

Key duties and responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

Collaborating with product owners and department heads to understand requirements, and independently design and drive solutions from concept to production.
Frequently shipping code to production, in small, safe increments (i.e. multiple times per day).
Stepping outside your comfort zone, quickly adapting to new technologies and problems.
Proactively identifying and addressing blockers, before they become issues.
Produce code of excellent quality, that is simple to understand, change, test, re-use.
Produce code that is always in a releasable state.
Taking a scientific and incremental approach to software engineering, including but not limited to identifying and reducing technical-debt, and continuously improving architecture and practices.
Driving testing and quality approaches, setting a strong example of others in the team.
Mentoring other team members on all of the above, to raise the bar across the organisation.

To be successful in this role you have:

Essential

Has proven experience leading successful outcomes for moderately complex environments, including related work management practices (XP, Kanban, Scrum, etc)
Incrementally improving architecture while delivering business value (features)
Back-end and front-end programming including common testing frameworks and approaches used with TypeScript and .NET C#
Deep expertise in scalable system architecture, including Domain-Driven Design (DDD), CQRS, Event Sourcing, MVC, messaging, and microservices - along with a strong understanding of when and how to apply (or avoid) these patterns effectively.
Thorough understanding of software testing strategies, encompassing unit, integration, and acceptance testing, as well as test-driven (TDD) and behaviour-driven development (BDD) practices.
Cloud architectures, specifically Azure
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts and articulate business value clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
Desirable

Hands-on experience with automated deployment pipelines, covering everything from staging environments and versioning to secure secrets management and structured release processes.
Strong knowledge of application security and identity management, including OWASP best practices, OAuth protocols, and implementing role-based access control.
Advocate for agile methodologies and Continuous Delivery, with practical experience using Scrum and the ability to support teams and stakeholders at varying levels of agile maturity.
Proven experience in mobile app development, with a solid understanding of cross-platform and native mobile technologies.

In return we offer you:

A passionate, innovative, energetic, and supportive culture. It is something we're really proud of at FLG and you'll feel part of the family from day one
A flexible work environment with a mixture of in-office and work-from-home
You'll also benefit from our industry-leading learning and development offering - we pride ourselves on supporting and developing our team members, providing them with the learning and skills they need to build a long-term career with us
Modern open-plan office in the heart of South Brisbane with an on-site cafe and commuter hub facilities
A competitive salary package and a wide range of benefits including a complimentary gym membership (plus one for a friend)
Leading paid parental leave
Additional benefits including extra leave days accrued as part of our recognition for service awards

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At Fitness and Lifestyle Group we bring positive energy and attitude to work every day, we are proud of who we are and who we work for. We don't just accept individuality; we encourage it and acknowledge the value diversity and inclusivity brings to our organisation. We pride ourselves on empowering our team to be their authentic selves at work.

We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, people of all ages, race, sex, intersex status, gender identity, sexual orientation, people with a disability and from other diverse backgrounds.

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