Lead Software Engineer - Autonomy

About Us

Fortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry-leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Perth – Fortescue’s Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people

Roster: Monday to Friday

The Lead Software Engineer (C#/.NET) is responsible for defining, governing and advancing best practice across the C#/.NET technology stack. This role combines deep hands-on engineering expertise with technical leadership to ensure the delivery of high performance, scalable and maintainable software solutions.

Working with a team of other domain experts, the Lead Software Engineer will work closely with Solution Architects, Software Architects and Developers to deliver and improve features. They will embed themselves into software development team activities to ensure governance over the work produced.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with Software Architects, Development teams, Verification teams, and other domain experts to ensure that detailed designs are implemented to a consistently high standard, aligned with architectural principles and engineering best practice
• Define, develop and maintain reusable software patterns, shared libraries and engineering standards to improve quality, consistency and maintainability
• Provide deep technical expertise to resolve complex challenges, including performance optimisation, concurrency, scalability, integration complexity and production incidents
• Mentor and coach engineers across the organisation and promoting a culture of engineering excellence
• Contribute to technical strategy, technology selection and architectural decision making.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, related field, or equivalent industry experience
• 7+ years of experience in software development with at least 3 years focused heavily on C# and .NET related technologies
• Strong experience with architectural principles
• Experience working within distributed systems, service-oriented or microservices-based architectures
• Ability to build trusted relationships with diverse stakeholders
• Ability to solve complex problems by collaborating with other experts
• Demonstrated passion for learning and staying current with evolving technology.

Our Commitment

Fortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.