Principal Engineer | AI-Native Engineering | Up to £100k
I'm working with a fast-growing international health and wellness group looking for a hands-on Principal Engineer to become a key technical authority across the business.
This isn't a people-management role. You'll stay close to the code while influencing architecture, security, infrastructure and how AI is used across engineering.
They're looking for someone who can help move AI-assisted development from experimentation into genuine, production-ready engineering workflows.
What you'll be working on:
- Driving adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development using tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, coding agents, MCP and RAG
- Owning complex architecture across TypeScript, Node.js and React
- Setting standards around security, privacy, APIs, testing and production readiness
- Improving AWS/GCP infrastructure, CI/CD, observability and reliability
- Working across ecommerce and regulated healthcare platforms
- Mentoring senior engineers and helping unblock the hardest technical problems
What they're looking for:
- Principal, Staff or strong Lead Engineer experience
- Strong TypeScript, Node.js + React background
- Genuine hands-on experience with LLMs, coding agents, MCP, RAG or AI-assisted engineering
- Experience working in a regulated environment such as healthtech, fintech, banking or insurance
- Strong knowledge of cloud, security and production architecture
- Someone who wants to remain hands-on, rather than move purely into management
Stockport once a week, remote the rest
Private health insurance + pension
Enterprise AI tooling and AI-first development environment
Opportunity to shape the function and potentially build a team as the business scales
If you're already using AI to materially change the way you build software, rather than simply using Copilot for autocomplete, I'd be really interested in speaking with you.
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