Description
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to lead the definition and execution of key strategic initiatives. As a Principal Engineer, you will work autonomously and be accountable for strategic execution in part of the engineering organization. You will build both back-end and front-end systems, and work closely with designers, product managers, researchers, and data analysts. You will coach and mentor other engineers and partner closely with the Group Engineering Managers on technical strategy and leadership.
As an experienced engineer, you will have a mastery of domain knowledge and work as a leader within the R&D org to drive key strategic projects. You will provide assessments of project progress, risks and challenges to engineering leadership to help guide resource allocation and prioritisation. You will contribute to our technical architecture as we grow. We scale to service requests from all our customers' customers. We're growing and so are they.
You will care about agility as much you care for scalability and availability. Continuous deployment keeps us focused on incremental releases. Even our biggest technical achievements roll out piece by piece, feature flagged out of sight. You will contribute to all phases of software development including ideation, prototyping, design and implementation. This role has a mix of both hands-on development as well as lead/architecture work.
You will build using the best tools in the industry. We invest heavily in AI-powered developer tools that remove friction and help you focus on solving meaningful problems. You will play an active role in hiring, mentoring and career development of other engineers. You will raise the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
We are looking for someone with significant, demonstrated impact that their work has had on the product and/or the teams. You should have deep knowledge of a high-level programming language (for example, Ruby, Python, Perl etc.) but it doesn't need to be a language that we use here! Great people are effective and learn what we use quickly (or introduce us to better ways of working).
You will have experience with Distributed systems and 2+ years of experience as the primary technical leader for a team. You should have experience collaborating directly with technical leaders, product teams and designers, and a proven track record of delivering value to customers or users.