Principal / Consulting Engineer • Location: Oxford, London • Time type: Full time • Posted on: Today • Job requisition id: R112322
About the role
As a Principal Engineer, you will help shape the technical direction of platforms used by the global research community. You will work across teams to modernise systems, improve reliability, and guide the responsible use of AI where it delivers clear value. This role combines technical leadership with hands‑on contribution.
About the team
The Submissions Technology group builds and operates platforms that support the scholarly publishing lifecycle—from submission and peer review through to editorial decisions and publication. We focus on reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement as we modernise core systems and introduce new capabilities.
Responsibilities
* Set clear technical direction across teams and support the delivery of shared goals.
* Guide the design of secure, scalable, and resilient services, APIs, and data flows.
* Contribute directly to high‑impact work, including system modernisation and risk reduction.
* Coach engineers and strengthen engineering practices such as observability, automation, and incident learning.
* Support teams in using AI‑assisted development and production AI patterns where they add real value.
Qualifications
* Experience working at senior, staff, or principal engineer level across multiple teams or domains.
* A track record of influencing technical decisions and supporting change at scale.
* Experience designing and evolving distributed systems, services, and APIs in cloud environments.
* Strong backend engineering experience (for example with Java and Spring Boot), and comfort working in modern product development teams.
* A collaborative approach, with clear communication and thoughtful decision‑making around quality, risk, and delivery.
* Event‑driven systems and messaging technologies (for example Kafka or SNS/SQS).
* Frontend development experience, such as React.
* Working in polyglot environments (such as TypeScript or Python).
* Containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines.
* Applying AI or GenAI techniques in production, such as prompting, retrieval workflows, or large language model integrations.
Working arrangement
* Remote from home or in office in a flexible hybrid style.
* Flexible hours – flex times throughout the day to fit needs and productivity.
* Co‑working in an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative, and supportive environment.
Benefits
* Generous holiday allowance with option to buy additional days.
* Access to learning platforms and encouragement to book up to 10 days focused learning/development time per year.
* Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits.
* Well‑being programs.
* Life assurance.
* Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme.
* Long service awards / Save As You Earn share option scheme.
* Travel season ticket loan.
* Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave.
* Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children.
* RELX Cares days, giving time to support charities and causes that matter.
* Employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer.
* Extensive learning and development resources.
* Employee discounts via Perks at Work.
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