🚀 Principal Engineer - AI-Assisted Engineering / Developer Productivity🚀
đź“Ť Remote (UK)
đź“… ASAP Start
đź’° Outside IR35
⏳ Initial 3 months (likely extension)
We’re supporting a consultancy delivering a major engineering transformation programme across a complex SaaS and Microsoft CRM platform estate.
They’re looking for a Principal-level Engineer who can combine strong modern .NET engineering experience with AI-assisted development practices to materially improve engineering velocity, developer productivity and software delivery.
This is a highly hands-on role focused on modern engineering workflows, AI harnesses/tooling, and improving how teams build, test, review, and deploy software at scale.
🔑 What you’ll be doing
• Driving AI-assisted engineering practices across delivery teams
• Building and improving AI harnesses, agentic workflows, and developer tooling around LLMs
• Improving engineering velocity, SDLC maturity, and developer experience
• Working across a distributed microservices/platform ecosystem
• Introducing automation into testing, code review, documentation, and delivery workflows
• Helping shape architectural decisions and engineering standards
• Coaching teams on modern software engineering and AI-native development practices
🎯 What they’re looking for
• Strong experience as a Principal, Staff, or Lead Engineer
• Deep hands-on .NET / C# experience
• Strong cloud experience across AWS or GCP
• Experience with microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures
• Exposure to AI-assisted development tooling such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor etc
• Experience building AI tooling, harnesses, MCP tooling, RAG systems, or agentic workflows
• Strong CI/CD, DevOps, and engineering automation experience
• Comfortable working closely with engineering leadership and product stakeholders