Staff Engineer, Delivery
Aristocrat is looking for a Staff Engineer, Delivery to play a pivotal role in driving the engineering team's success and ensuring the flawless execution of projects. The role involves managing sprint planning, resource allocation, and the removal of technical or process-related blockers to ensure predictable delivery.
Beyond delivery management, the Staff Engineer remains hands-on in the codebase, contributing to features and systems within the analytics and AI platform. The position requires a balance of technical leadership, mentorship, and cross-functional coordination to maintain high engineering standards and project alignment.
- Own sprint and achievement planning, ensuring work is accurately sequenced, prioritised, and resourced.
- Assign tasks across the team based on capacity, technical fit, and business priority.
- Proactively surface and remove blockers, whether technical, process-related, or cross-team dependencies, before they become delivery risks.
- Track progress and communicate delivery status clearly to engineering leads and collaborators.
- Hold the team to consistent, predictable execution and flag risks early.
- Stay hands-on in the codebase, contributing to features and systems across the analytics and AI platform alongside the team.
- Conduct detailed, constructive code reviews that raise the quality bar and accelerate team learning.
- Contribute to technical build and architecture discussions, helping the team navigate trade-offs and make well-informed decisions.
- Model and uphold engineering standards around code quality, testing coverage, and documentation.
- Coordinate with other engineering teams, customer success managers, and project managers to manage cross-functional dependencies and align on priorities.
- Represent the team's capacity and commitments accurately in planning and refinement ceremonies.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, supporting their technical development and day-to-day confidence.
- 7+ years of professional experience in software development, ideally within data-intensive or analytics-focused products (required)
- Demonstrated experience coordinating and driving delivery within an agile or sprint-based team environment (required)
- Hands-on proficiency with Node.js, React, and Python (required)
- Experience managing delivery workflows in Jira (required)
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, including build pipelines, version control workflows, and release processes (required)
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and keep multiple workstreams on track without compromising technical quality (required)
- Comfortable working with limited direction on complex, ambiguous problems and exercising independent judgement to find solutions (required)
- Strong communication skills, able to present delivery status, risks, and technical context clearly to varied audiences (required)
- Experience mentoring engineers at earlier career stages and a genuine interest in developing others (required)
- Collaborative outlook with the ability to influence and gain the cooperation of peers and senior partners (required)
- Robust benefits package
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.