Lead Software Engineer

Since launching in 2011, THE ICONIC has redefined the future of retail in Australia and New Zealand. As the leading fashion, sports and lifestyle e-commerce destination in the region, our e-commerce platforms (Retail, Marketplace and Services) provide a seamless and  inspiring end-to-end customer experience. 

Scalable solutions, exciting challenges, and a direct impact on more than 5 million customers. This is engineering at THE ICONIC.

Our systems handle a massive amount of traffic, and with millions of active sessions it’s guaranteed you’re going to get first-hand feedback from customers on the code you deploy! 

Our agile engineering team is responsible for building the technology, features, and experiences our customers are obsessed with. We are on a mission to bring on the future of shopping!

What you will do..

• Lead software projects to develop our cutting-edge e-commerce platform
• Work in an agile environment to develop a best-in-market experience for THE ICONIC customers
• Work on complex architectural and technical problems
• Write and maintain clean and well-tested code
• Deploy microservices using infrastructure as code technologies, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Terraform
• Work on distributed systems at scale with high traffic workloads
• Collaborate with other software engineers and stakeholders in your team to build and maintain APIs in our microservices architecture (Kubernetes)

What we are looking for..

• Experience leading agile and lean software engineering teams
• Excellent understanding of fundamental engineering concepts - SOLID principles, clean code, design patterns, testing
• Software Architecture - well versed in a range of architectural styles such as mirco-services, event driven architecture, and migrating legacy systems.
• In-depth knowledge of scalable SaaS cloud solution services such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• APIs - RESTful API design
• Databases, experience with any RDMS (MySQL, Postgres, etc) and NoSQL solutions (Redis, DynamoDb, etc.)
• Security-first mindset
• Well versed in unit testing frameworks such as Jest
• Well versed  in Node.js (with either JavaScript or TypeScript) or PHP
• Experience with automated deployments (CI/CD)

Ways to stand out from the crowd..

• Exposure to Docker in production (Kubernetes, EKS)
• Experience with queue solutions to execute background jobs asynchronously (RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, Kafka, etc. any of these)  
• Experience working with modern front-end JS frameworks (eg. React, Vue.js, Angular)
• CSS/SASS and UX/UI Design
• PHP and PHP Unit
• AWS cloud experience

Why you'll love THE ICONIC..

From our ways of working to our growth mindset and sustainable approach, we each add unique value and have an incredible amount of fun doing it! People are our greatest asset and our ICONITE experience is designed to empower you to do your best work. Here’s what to expect when you join THE ICONIC:

• Flexible working. We offer a hybrid and flexible working model so you can do your best work in a way that works for you
• The learning  collective. Get your knowledge fix with our learning days and hackathons
• Parents at THE ICONIC. Access to our parental leave program and an extra day off for your kids' first day of school every year 
• Birthday leave. Enjoy a paid day off for your birthday and an ICONIC voucher to treat yourself
• Curate your style. No matter what your style is, we have got you covered with our Amazing staff discount and our famous sample sales
• People & Planet Positive: From our ethical sourcing and sustainability strategies to our community engagement and diversity, our responsibility is multifaceted, and each of these facets are equally important. 
• Wellbeing. Access to our discounted gym memberships and wellbeing programs
• People  first. Access our Employee Assistance Program for you and your family. 
• Volunteer days. Work as a Charity Partner with Thread Together for society and environmental change.

Additional Information

At THE ICONIC, diversity, inclusion, and belonging are integral to our culture, fostering an environment of respect and dignity. We aim to empower self-expression and ensure our workforce reflects our diverse communities. By embracing diverse perspectives and experiences, we strive to create a genuine sense of belonging for our employees, customers, and partners, promoting equal opportunities and a better shopping experience for all

We are committed to providing reasonable arrangements to all individuals participating in our application and interview process, and while performing job functions. If you require any accommodations or adjustments prior to the submission of your application or throughout your interview process, please contact our Talent Acquisition team directly: talent.attraction@theiconic.com.au

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The Team: Marketplace Quality Engineering

Every second, our bidder evaluates millions of ad opportunities across thousands of publishers and supply paths. Not all of that supply is created equal — some of it is duplicated, some is structurally inaccessible, and some degrades advertiser outcomes. The Marketplace Quality Engineering team exists to make sure our platform is buying the right impressions, not just more impressions.

We own the systems that assess, measure, and optimize supply quality across the programmatic ecosystem. Our work spans deduplication, supply path analysis, quality modeling, and the tooling that turns those signals into decisions at bid time. The problems are technically deep — think identity resolution across fragmented supply chains, statistical modeling to separate signal from noise, and real-time decisioning at platform scale — and they have direct, measurable impact on both advertiser outcomes and platform economics.

This is not theoretical work. When we ship a model update, spend distribution across the platform shifts. Our engineering decisions translate directly into tens of millions of dollars of measurable business impact. If you want to build systems where what you ship visibly matters, this is the team.

You will work with C# / .NET as a core strength, alongside Python and SQL where data and automation need it, and partner closely with product, data, and platform teams across time zones.

Who you are

Our culture runs deeper than having fun together (though we do that well, too). We take pride in our engineers being trust-builders, generous givers, scrappy problem solvers, and gritty pursuers of excellence. You do not need to meet every requirement below, but people who meet most of them tend to thrive in this role:

- You are comfortable working on an agile, distributed team across time zones and continents.
- You communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- You have a solid grasp of computer science and engineering fundamentals.
- You have strong experience with distributed systems and data-heavy backend work (services, pipelines, or both).
- You are proficient in C# / .NET.
- You are productive with modern development tools: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Rider, and Git.
- You bring 7+ years of software development or engineering experience.

Nice to have (not required): GraphQL or REST API design, large-scale data processing frameworks (e.g. Apache Spark), workflow orchestration tools (e.g. Apache Airflow), schema-based data serialization, Kubernetes, Kafka, database engines (Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Vertica, Redis), microservices, Python for data work or automation, and experience working across large codebases with multiple teams.

A wide range of technical opportunities is one of the best parts of engineering at The Trade Desk, which is why we do not expect you to know every technology we use on day one. What matters is that you learn quickly and solve complex problems with the right tools. What you know today matters less than how well you learn, adapt, and innovate. We are not looking for people who already have all the answers — we want engineers who can invent answers no one has thought of yet and frame the questions we have not yet asked.