Principal Software Engineer

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Fortescue Centre - Fortescue's Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people.

Roster: Monday - Friday 

Fortescue is transforming its business through Artificial Intelligence, bringing our unique culture of innovation and leading through doing to transform our asset and employee productivity. The key mission of this role will be to lead the development of the data foundation required to support and accelerate the delivery of AI systems and solutions in our mine to port supply chain. The right candidate will bring a deep understanding of the development and deployment of software to enable the transformation of operations-centric workflows using advanced decision-making techniques including AI/ML, along with a drive for delivering outcomes and working software from concept design through to value.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and deployment of back-end and front-end systems that deliver advanced decision-making tools to our control, scheduling & reliability teams
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to diagnose performance issues and lead the implementation of proactive and reactive fixes
• Lead the development and evolution of our front-end systems, including the appearance, functionality and use of different UI patterns including natural language and visual workflows
• Lead the development and evolution of back-end systems, including server-side applications and databases, as well as the APIs to support direct integration between different systems and tools
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing and promoting good practices and habits, identifying and encouraging areas for growth and improvement within the team
• Develop and deliver communication and education to drive team software engineering capabilities, standards, and processes, including leading post-implementation reviews to support group learning
• Communicate the value and impact of software engineering in AI systems to a broad range of stakeholders, including senior leadership
• Mentoring junior software engineers and helping support the broader capability development of software engineering for AI across Fortescue

Qualifications and Experience

• Significant experience working in a developer or software engineering role, including back-end and front-end experience - combined with qualifications in computer science, software engineering or similar 
• Familiarity with common cloud and open-source platforms for back-end development (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) and front-end development (TypeScript and React)
• Proficiency in general programming languages and integration of run-time critical components and services into larger applications (i.e. C#, Python)
• Understanding and implementation experience of REST API and Webhooks, as well as the use of Git, Git Flow and Github Actions.
• Understanding and implementation experience of Code quality assurance, testing methodologies, and continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD).
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in agile development methodologies and scrum-type delivery teams.
• Interest in the development of advanced operations decision-support systems using artificial intelligence, machine learning and combinatorial optimisation (beneficial)

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

https://fortescue.com/careers 

Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.