Qantas Loyalty is a high performing business and has a history of launching exciting new brands and services that make a difference to its millions of Frequent Flyer and Business Rewards members. Qantas Frequent Flyer and Qantas Business Rewards remain at the core of the program, while the business has evolved to include a number of new ventures and other businesses such as Qantas Money, Qantas Insurance, Qantas Hotels & Holidays and Qantas Wine.
As a Principal Engineer – Android, you will be the technical authority responsible for shaping the architecture, direction, and excellence of our Android mobile platforms. You’ll lead by example—engineering scalable, performant, and elegant Android solutions while fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement across our mobile teams.
You will guide the design and delivery of Android applications that reach a diverse range of devices, with a clear focus on modern Android development practices such as Jetpack Compose, modular architecture, and clean code principles. Partnering with Product Managers, Designers, Backend Engineers, and QA, you’ll translate complex business requirements into robust, secure, and user-friendly experiences.
As a senior leader in the engineering organisation, you’ll also contribute to technical strategy and drive alignment across domains, playing a key role in shaping how engineering operates at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Android Architecture and Technical Strategy: Define and evolve the Android technical roadmap, drive adoption of best practices, and ensure architectural decisions support scalability, maintainability, and performance.
- Hands-on Development & Technical Oversight: Be actively involved in writing high-quality Kotlin code, participating in code reviews, and setting engineering standards through technical excellence.
- Team Leadership and Mentorship: Inspire, mentor, and grow a high-performing Android engineering team. Encourage knowledge sharing, career development, and continuous learning.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineering leads to align technical execution with business goals. Ensure technical feasibility and influence product direction with your deep domain expertise.
- Innovation and Developer Experience: Champion developer tooling, CI/CD automation, observability, and testability improvements to accelerate delivery while maintaining reliability and consistency.
- Technical Governance: Review architectural decisions across mobile teams, ensuring code quality, security, performance, and accessibility are baked into delivery processes.
What You Bring
- 10+ years of experience in software development with a strong focus on Android.
- Deep expertise in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM architecture, and Android Jetpack libraries. Servier Driver UI experience a plus.
- Proven leadership experience, with a history of successfully mentoring teams and leading large-scale mobile initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience integrating mobile apps with backend services using RESTful APIs.
- Strong grasp of performance profiling, memory management, multithreading, offline capabilities, and UI rendering best practices.
- Passion for clean architecture, reusable components, modularisation, and test-driven development.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience designing and evolving API contracts in collaboration with backend teams.
- Familiarity with modern Android build tooling (Gradle, KMP, Hilt, Coroutines, etc.).
- A mindset of continuous improvement, innovation, and advocacy for high engineering standards.
Why Qantas?
You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully.
There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.
The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.
- We love to travel: Enjoy discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
- We have flexible leave options: We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave (plus superannuation payments on all paid and unpaid parental leave until your child turns 1) and additional purchased leave options for eligible employees.
- We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging for everything from motor vehicles to electronic devices.
- We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether its learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.
Applications will close by the 20th May
About us
Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic and international services.
About us
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