Principal Engineer

We are currently recruiting for a Principal Engineer to join a market-leading FinTech organisation building highly scalable analytics and optimisation platforms used by some of the world’s largest financial institutions.

About the Role

This is a senior technical leadership role focused on shaping platform architecture, driving engineering standards, and guiding the evolution of a complex cloud-native product. We are looking for an experienced Principal Engineer who enjoys influencing technical direction, solving complex engineering challenges, and working closely with both technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own and govern architecture across multiple engineering teams
• Define technical standards and review solution designs
• Drive architectural consistency across a large-scale platform
• Guide teams through complex design decisions and critical implementations
• Influence technical strategy and long-term platform evolution
• Work closely with senior stakeholders across technology and the business
• Identify and address technical debt, platform risk, and cross-team dependencies
• Ensure scalability, resilience, security, and performance are embedded into solutions from the outset
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads
• Contribute to architectural governance and engineering best practice

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Principal Engineer, Lead Architect, Technical Architect, or similar senior technical leadership role
• Strong experience designing and governing architecture across distributed, cloud-based platforms
• Demonstrable track record influencing technical strategy across multiple engineering teams
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture, scalability, resilience, and platform design
• Experience working within complex data-intensive or analytical technology environments
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Strong cloud experience (AWS or equivalent)
• Hands-on software engineering background with modern development practices

Required Skills

• Experience with Python-based platforms
• Experience with React, TypeScript and Redux
• Experience with end-to-end systems
• Exposure to containerisation and cloud-native technologies
• Experience working within financial services, fintech, trading technology, analytics, or other highly regulated environments

Preferred Skills

• University degree in a STEM subject from a reputable institution

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