Staff Software Engineer

About the role

Join AGL’s Digital Onyx team, responsible for customer identity and authentication experiences, including AUTH0 login flows. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will act as a senior technical leader—designing and delivering scalable digital solutions while mentoring engineers and shaping best practice across the team.
 

This role is key to driving high-quality, customer-focused outcomes across digital platforms, working in a cross-functional agile environment.

This is a 2-year fixed term contract role ending July 2028
 

What you’ll do

• Lead design, development and delivery of scalable digital solutions across the tech stack

• Build and optimise microservices and cloud-native architectures (Azure)

• Design and implement authentication and identity solutions (incl. AUTH0)

• Develop and deploy RAG pipelines, vector databases, and AI-driven solutions

• Drive engineering best practice (testing, CI/CD, quality, design patterns)

• Partner with Product, Architecture, and business stakeholders to solve complex problems

• Mentor engineers and uplift team capability

• Champion continuous improvement across technology and ways of working
   

What you’ll bring

• Strong experience building scalable microservices and cloud-based solutions (Azure preferred)

• Expertise in modern engineering stacks (C#, .NET, React/Angular, API development)

• Knowledge of authentication platforms (e.g. AUTH0 or similar)

• Experience with AI/ML concepts including LLMs, embeddings, vector search, and RAG architectures

• Strong understanding of testing, CI/CD, and high-quality engineering practices

• Proven ability to lead technically and mentor others

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills

• Experience working in agile environments (SAFe highly regarded)

About you

You’re a collaborative technical leader who enjoys solving complex problems, lifting those around you, and delivering incremental customer value. You bring curiosity, pragmatism, and a continuous improvement mindset to everything you do.
 

Why join AGL

• Work on customer-facing platforms that impact millions of Australians

• Be part of a collaborative, cross-functional agile environment

• Opportunity to shape modern engineering practices and emerging AI capabilities

• Contribute to meaningful transformation in energy and digital experiences