Role Overview
The Principal Engineer (PE) will provide technical leadership to the development teams and nurture a culture of continual learning. The Principal Engineer will demonstrate the benefits of approaches to development and delivery either through working as a team member or through group sessions. They should be the authority for decisions relating to standards and engineering best practices within their teams.
The Principal Engineer will be passionate about software development and keen to use their technical and mentoring skills to help their development team to be successful. They should be comfortable working in agile teams, foster transparent communication, have a commitment to quality, and a focus on getting things done.
Role Responsibilities
1. Act as a primary technical leader and developer on a team
2. Provide technical oversight of the analysis and design for assigned projects
3. Design, develop, test and oversee production software solutions in both existing and greenfield projects
4. Identify opportunities to evolve systems towards target state architecture and direct refactoring and prioritisation to positively influence deliveries
5. Identify tools and methodologies to improve the effectiveness of the development process
6. Communicate complex technical designs and issues with technical and non-technical stakeholders and influence their decision making where necessary
7. Support team management in planning and prioritisation of deliveries
8. Participate in team ceremonies such as retrospectives and seek opportunities to drive best practice
9. Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate and lead team members to their optimum performance levels
10. Manage risks and issues effectively with timely escalation to the project stakeholders
Experience / Competences
Essential
11. 5+ years relevant industry experience
12. Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach
13. Experience of hands on technical leadership developing complex systems
14. Experience of the full software development lifecycle in a technical role
15. Current in-depth knowledge of Java and Spring Boot Framework
Desired
16. Strong experience in database, ORM and related technologies – Hibernate, JPA, Postgres, SQL
17. Experience in frontend development in Javascript, Typescript or React
18. Experience of Python as a general purpose scripting language
19. Experience in AWS stack and related technologies –EKS, SQS/SNS, Aurora, Amazon CDK, Helm
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