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Principal Engineer @Totara Learning Solutions

[Hiring] Principal Engineer @Totara Learning Solutions

Mar 31, 2025 - Totara Learning Solutions is hiring a remote Principal Engineer. 💸 Salary: competitive salary. 📍Location: New Zealand.

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Role Description

This role offers a unique opportunity to make a high-level impact while staying hands-on with code. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you'll work alongside architects and engineers to prioritise and execute on the technology roadmap, uplift engineering practices, and solve complex technical challenges.

  • Collaborate with architects on the evolution of Totara's system design, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and strategic growth.
  • Identify systemic technical challenges and drive their resolution by shaping the technology backlog.
  • Plan, coordinate, and motivate teams to improve engineering practices across the organisation.
  • Align technical initiatives with Totara's commercial strategy, ensuring an optimal balance between innovation and business priorities.
  • Navigate Totara's product development environment, including open-source software, software licensing, US federal compliance, delivery via partner channels, and acquisitions.
  • Incorporate modern industry technologies and patterns into technology strategy.
  • Mentor and coach engineers, fostering technical growth across R&D.
  • Lead and support delivery teams in making strong technical decisions, ensuring best practices in software development.
  • Work closely with the Head of Engineering and architects to build a strategic technology roadmap, balancing immediate needs with long-term growth.

Qualifications

  • Deep technical expertise, shaping engineering decisions at a domain or system-wide level.
  • Experience solving complex engineering problems, with a focus on performance, scalability, and maintainability.
  • A tactical mindset, balancing architecture with hands-on implementation.
  • A highly hands-on approach, including writing code, debugging, reviewing PRs, and optimising system performance.
  • Proficiency in modern software engineering practices, including security, CI/CD, and cloud-native development.
  • A collaborative leadership style, with the ability to influence and inspire engineers across teams.
  • Experience working in Agile environments, with a track record of leading technical initiatives.

Benefits

  • Enhanced Parental Leave
  • Private Healthcare
  • Professional Development Opportunities
  • Annual Wellbeing Allowance
  • New Joiner home working set-up allowance
  • Additional Paid Leave: Birthday off, Working days between Christmas and New Years Eve

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Principal Engineer @Totara Learning Solutions
Software Development
Salary 💸 competitive salary
Remote Location
New Zealand
Job Type full-time
Posted Mar 31, 2025
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