Principal Software Engineer

Requirements

• Excited to influence technical direction across teams while still contributing hands‑on to complex, high‑impact engineering challenges

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• You want to shape domain architecture, mentor senior engineers, and connect technical decisions to real customer and business outcomes

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• We value different career paths and welcome candidates who bring varied experiences and perspectives

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• Experience as a senior technical leader working across multiple teams or services

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• Strong engineering judgement with the ability to explain and balance technical trade offs

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• Experience designing and evolving distributed systems, APIs, and integrations

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• Experience modernising systems, including reducing technical debt and moving toward cloud native patterns

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• Comfort working across a polyglot technology environment and selecting fit for purpose tools

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• Experience leading or influencing cross team architectural change or platform adoption

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• Strong understanding of software design principles and maintainable architecture patterns

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• Experience building secure, scalable, and resilient cloud based solutions (e.g. AWS or equivalent)

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• Knowledge of testing strategies, CI/CD, and operational reliability practices

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• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science (or related) or equivalent professional experience

What the job involves

• As a Principal Engineer, you will help teams do their best work by improving engineering practices, reducing delivery risk, and fostering a culture of trust, learning, and high standards

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• You will lead through influence, collaborate across disciplines, and connect technical decisions to meaningful customer and business outcomes

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• This role combines technical leadership, hands-on contribution, and partnership with product, engineering, and architecture leaders

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• You’ll create an environment where teams can deliver sustainably by improving ways of working and removing blockers

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• Mentor engineers and emerging technical leaders in architecture, systems thinking, and operational excellence

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• Lead through influence to align technical direction across teams and domains

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• Build a strong understanding of the domain, users, and business goals, and co-own the technical roadmap with partners

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• Help teams make informed technical tradeoffs aligned to reliability, security, scalability, and cost

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• Define and evolve domain architecture, service boundaries, and integration patterns

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• Set and maintain clear, pragmatic technical standards and promote consistency in APIs and data ownership

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• Contribute Hands on to complex or high risk technical work when it adds the most value

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• Improve operational excellence through observability, automation, resilient design, and incident learning

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• Partner with security and platform teams to ensure solutions are secure, reliable, and production ready

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• Works with Architects and other Principals to drive technical direction while partnering effectively with Engineering Leads and managers; establishes cross-team mechanisms for collaboration; builds alignment through trust, clarity, and shared goals

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