Lead Software Engineer

About Woodside Energy

We are a global energy company, providing reliable and affordable energy to help people lead better lives. Join our team at Woodside Global Solutions in Bengaluru where talent, digital expertise, and operational excellence converge to solve complex energy challenges, accelerate change, and reimagine business capabilities to support Woodside’s global operations and our role in the energy transition.

Founded in 1954, Woodside established the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry in Australia 40 years ago and supplies customers around the globe. 70 years on, Woodside continues to be driven by a spirit of innovation and determination.

At Woodside, we know great results come from our people feeling valued, getting the support they need to reach their full potential and working in a psychologically and physically safe work environment. We believe in nurturing talent and providing opportunities for continuous learning and career advancement.

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About Woodside Global Solutions

Woodside Global Solutions in Bengaluru is being built as a hub of excellence, to drive innovation, digital transformation, and global collaboration.

Working as one Global team, the Woodside Digital team is a trusted partner driving transformation within the organisation. We are bold in our ambitions and resolute in our actions. Through cutting-edge AI, robust cyber security, and advanced data solutions we drive innovation and influence every part of our business.

We are looking for talented professionals who are passionate about technology and eager to make a global impact, helping to shape the future of Woodside together.

About the role :

The Lead Software Engineer is a highly capable technical leader across the full development lifecycle (requirements to operation) and entire technology stack (front-end user interface to the back-end data access patterns). They lead teams by example to deliver value from complex and ambiguous requirements, set a high bar for engineering quality, and influence technical outcomes beyond their immediate work. They lead software design and implementation of significant features or whole systems, mentor others through example, and take accountability for the long term health, security, and performance of software platforms.

This role is agile team based and requires both leadership and expert level hands-on coding skills. They will be a problem solver, an expert coder, a mentor of others and someone passionate about driving continuous improvement and quality in a dynamic product environment.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead the team in design, build, and evolution of complex applications and platforms across multiple languages, cloud services and platforms.

• Champion software quality by holding a high bar in code reviews, testing practices, and prevention of regressions.

• Act as a technical steward by setting and enforcing code standards, maintaining consistency, and owning critical components or services.

• Lead solution design for domains or systems, evaluating trade offs in cost, scalability, performance, and requirements, documenting solutions, providing clarity where it is lacking.

• Lead secure by design reviews and ensuring the team’s security maturity and overall system safety.

• Actively lead the decomposition of complex problems/requirements into implementable work tasks.

• Lead operations related discussions with other software engineers and stakeholders to influence product or technical direction based on system behaviours in production.

• Provide structured evaluation of new technologies and contribute to platform patterns and ways of working.

Skills & Experience:

Required Experience / Essential Skills

• Typically, 10+ years of experience in software engineering roles after formal academic studies with senior engineering experience including formally mentoring other developers

• Expert proficiency as a full-stack web developer in Typescript, React, Node.js, HTML, CSS and front-end build tools and bundlers (npm, Vite, Webpack).

• Expert proficiency in designing and provisioning AWS cloud native solutions. This must be in cloud native serverless technologies (not just EC2 and containers) using such services as API Gateway, AppSync, Lambda, S3, SNS+SQS, DynamoDB, Aurora etc. There is no hand-off for infrastructure as code (Cloudformati…