Principal Engineer (Education)
Competitive + Bonus + Benefits
UK, Remote
Permanent full time
Summary
The Principal Software Engineer role is a key role in the IRIS Engineering Organization and is one of the keystones in the delivery of World-Class Customer Products, Developer experience and the advancement of our technology in .NET and C#.
As the Education Principal Engineer at IRIS you will :
* Drive the usage and best practices of AI Tools such as Devin, Replit, Co-Pilot, Cursor.
* Work with a high level of autonomy with regards to both focus areas and impact mechanisms.
* Demonstrate and educate industry recognised engineering Cloud Platform SAAS "best in class" practices / frameworks e.g. highly scalable, resilient, extendable service and application designs.
* Influence and drive the technical strategic direction of the platform & estate with engineering Leadership (VPs, Directors, Managers and Architects).
* Promote the Iris technical culture externally.
* Nurture / Grow the internal technical culture of Iris.
* Drive harmonization of best practices and processes across the organisation.
* Lead new ways of thinking and new engineering initiatives across the org without defined authority.
Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
* Apply deep technical expertise to supporting teams in solving complex problems.
* Work with architecture and Central teams to continually evolve the technical strategy.
* Utilise understanding of cloud technologies to help teams engineer for high availability and performance of the platform.
* Support project teams on the right pragmatic trade‑offs between rapid delivery and long‑term supportable code.
* Drive and support the adoption and driving of AI tooling and usage across the Product and Engineering Org.
* Enhance the delivery capability of any backend team.
* Take ownership of a problem space where appropriate.
Awareness and Impact
* Use passion and influence to drive impact at a wide scale.
* Anticipate issues that any ideas provided could cause and pursue the win.
* Be recognised as a force multiplier regardless of team or tech domain.
* Deliver business value through sound technical decisions and actions.
* Remove barriers for success through problem solving, collaboration and challenging the status quo.
* Actively mentor other engineers to reach their potential.
Communication
* Present with confidence to various audiences with an understanding of how to tailor the communication to be most impactful.
* Raise Iris's reputation in the technical community.
* Seek and provide constant constructive feedback.
Key Relationships
* VP / Directors Engineers.
* Functional Teams: Engineering, Quality Assurance, BA, Product Management and Support.
* Product Engineering Delivery Teams.
Experience
* Minimum 5 Years Experience developing and supporting engineers in their technical and career progression.
* Demonstratable impact of engineering delivery.
* Demonstratable creation and changes to applications using AI Tools.
* Ability to work with a high level of autonomy.
* Demonstrable knowledge of architectural concepts.
* Understanding of cloud‑native technologies and architecture.
* Significant experience breaking down monoliths into microservices.
* Advanced experience (+5 Years) with engineering processes such as CI / CD, Continuous Delivery and Agile.
* Deep knowledge and understanding of core advanced topics e.g. async, http, memory management, performance optimisation, profiling and debugging applications.
* Minimum 7 Years Experience working across multiple tech stacks.
* Minimum 5 Years Experience of working at enterprise level scale / throughput and reliability.
* Demonstrable experience of taking accountability and technical leadership and ownership of a Domain / Large scale problem.
Positive approach to problem solving
* Minimum 5 Years Experience of working at enterprise level scale / throughput and reliability.
* Demonstrable experience of taking accountability and technical leadership and ownership of a Domain / Large scale problem.
Please note :
We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.
For UK candidates only :
Please note we are only able to accept candidates that are permanent UK residents or have proven permanent right to work in the UK.
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