Great opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer with experience of .NET and AWS to join a fast-growing FinTech company in Manchester that have an award-winning culture built on collaboration. You'd join a large engineering department and would work with cross functional teams responsible for building high-performance, cloud-native systems in a DevOps environment. As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll lead by example, writing production-grade code while shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, and driving technical excellence across teams. What You'll Be Doing: Designing and building scalable, distributed systems (60% hands-on coding) Leading technical strategy across multiple product teams Coaching and mentoring Staff & Senior Software Engineers Owning non-functional requirements: scalability, security, performance Driving DevOps, CI/CD, and containerisation best practices Exploring and implementing AI-powered dev tools What We're Looking For: Strong hands-on skills in C#, .NET 9, Angular, NextJS and AWS Deep understanding of CI/CD, automation and modern DevOps practices Experience with Docker & Kubernetes for containerisation and cloud deployment Experience leading engineering teams or mentoring senior talent Strong system design skills including microservices, and cloud-native architecture The money is good too – up to £100k plus benefits including hybrid working, bonus, pension, share scheme and holiday allowance. If you're interested in this opportunity and would like to know more, please apply through this advert and I will contact you ASAP. InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.