Principal Software Engineer
UK
Role is in Edinburgh happy with remote working
The company is a world-class team of brands and products. That’s no easy task, and wouldn't be possible without a fantastic team who have helped us pioneer new products and innovative features that make us a leader in the industry. Whether you’re looking for better career progression, improved financial security or just a better sense of belonging, we believe we’ve created a culture in which everyone can succeed, no matter how you got here.
The Position
Principal Software Engineer to join our Core Marketing Platforms vertical where our teams are building new products, features and services to support and enable the companies marketing teams. This is a mission critical area for the company and one which has significant investment.
You will be a technical thought leader for the Engineering organisation and part of the community of our most senior Engineers, working with limited to no guidance and focusing on The company's most complex, ambiguous problems as well as driving decisions around programming languages, architecture, products, tools, approaches and processes. As part of this role, you own the technical strategy for an engineering vertical, with responsibility for technical architecture and operational excellence.
- You provide mentorship and guidance for other Engineers, serving as a role model and supporting their career progression and improving their technical knowledge of engineering practices.
- Ensure services and platforms are stable and scalable whilst future proofing our technology
- Be the subject matter expert and voice of the technical roadmap and champion of technical initiatives
- You will be involved in technical design, roadmaps and strategy but prepared to write code and paired program with engineers
We’re looking for someone with experience influencing technical decisions across large scale Engineering organisations and are comfortable creating and presenting a technical road map. You’ll be comfortable working at a strategic level across architecture and design but also able to write code and deliver a feature, performance or scalability to provide overall technical leadership.
- Your technical background will have had exposure to Java, AWS (ideally Lambdas or Kafka)
- Expert level understanding of design patterns and architectural principles
- Demonstrated abilities driving operational excellence and best practices with expert level experience building and designing highly scalable, fault tolerant and highly available systems.
- Experience influencing technical decisions across Engineering verticals.
We are interviewing now please call for more information or send over your CV.
