Principal Software Engineer

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Principal Engineer (C# / .NET) – Fully Remote UK - up to £180k Base + Bonus + 15% ESP

What’s in it for you?

Join a product-led tech team where you’ll ship high-quality software that makes a real difference to over 4 million users, move quickly without breaking standards, helping others level up as you go. Expect meaningful autonomy, a supportive, cross-functional culture and the chance to shape engineering practices across multiple teams.

The Role

You’ll be a technical leader who:

• Sets the bar for engineering excellence and helps teams deliver customer value faster through modern principles and practices.
• Contributes to product and technical direction, identifying capability gaps and driving continuous improvement across a cross-functional environment.
• Leads architectural and design discussions; audits codebases to maintain high standards across the business.
• Guides teams through growth phases and can act as incident coordinator when needed.
• Coaches and mentors engineers across disciplines, building strong relationships and clear communication channels.
• Lead of huge migration projects

Tech you’ll use

• C#/.NET
• SQL
• AWS

What you’ll bring

• Proven ability to lead or facilitate application design at scale and making strategic code-based decision
• Experience auditing and improving codebases, championing engineering standards and contributing to new ones.
• Expertise in distributed systems architecture and scaling real-world products.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Base Salary up to £180,000
• Guaranteed stock options
• Private medical cover and access to gym/pass schemes
• Employee resource groups and an inclusive culture
• Enhanced parental leave
• Employee share plan
• Great workspaces and modern tooling
• All benefits reflect a people-first approach so you can do the best work of your career

Principal Engineer (C# / .NET) – Fully Remote UK - up to £180k Base + Bonus + 15% ESP

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology and Engineering

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Media

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