Principal Engineer

Principle Software Engineer
£80,000 + 10% bonus & benefits
Fully Remote

My client is a tech for good company that aim to deliver market leading digital learning to millions of students across thousands of schools. They are pioneers in digital learning, and are looking for a Principle Engineer to join their team.

As a Principal Software Engineer of the Product and Enterprise Ops team, you will be instrumental in the solution architecture, engineering direction, and engineering capability of the core platform. You will define and integrate the architectural roadmap with broader, next-generation enterprise platform services to consistently deliver high-quality software. You will use your experience and communication skills to collaborate with engineering and operations teams.

Essential Job Functions

Analyse requirements for stories / tasks from product owners to create solution designs and provide useful timeline estimates.
Code solutions using appropriate languages - Node.js primarily. Some knowledge of Java, React, and Kubernetes is helpful).
Use metrics to identify opportunities and create new features.
Write clean, maintainable code with minimal defects so that future work on any codebase that you touch can be easily understood and maintained by other developers.
Test code functionality through unit tests so that we can be assured of expected code functionality before deployment.
Work with data and databases, as well as the appropriate technologies and languages for data transfer.
Resolve any customer support issues when required as part of the team’s strategy, so that products continue to delight customers and ensure the capability of products.
Work with management and stakeholders to ensure an understanding of the current progress in your work.
Write simple, easily understood documentation so that better decisions can be made in the moment regarding which tasks to work on next, and both existing and future team members can understand what you have worked on and the reasons behind any architectural or stylistic choices you may have made.
Learn about new technologies and adopt them into your working pattern to ensure you are up to date with emerging trends and can provide forward-thinking solutions to problems.
Proactively identify areas of the application that can be improved and work with Product Owners to add those tasks to the workstream to ensure the product remains competitive
Own the packaging and release of your code through a CI/CD pipeline and resolve any issues so that customers can use the features or bug fixes you deliver.
Constructively conduct Pull Request reviews on other team members’ code so that the bar on code quality continues raising and team members are encouraged to develop.
Train and mentor other team members, ensuring that you are knowledge-sharing to build team efficiencies.
Continuously identify and implement ideas that improve the overall developer experience.
Promote Product and Enterprise Operations culture and values

Experience & Technical Skills

Experience designing and creating Restful Services
Experience in designing and building solutions using Microservices Architecture & Event Driven Architecture
Experience with Agile methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Strong understanding and experience with AWS or other cloud providers
Capable of high level strategic architectural planning and goal setting
Strong technology leader in two or more domains; working knowledge of all enterprise domains
Mastery with Node.js and proficient in other languages and frameworks such as Java, React.js, and Kubernetes.

Last but not least.. You'll

Have the ability to innovate and evaluate at a senior level; thinks strategically across one or more technologies
Drive continuous improvement across architecture, engineering, and quality
Be an excellent communicator to non-technologists and Product teams; makes technical issues readily understandable to general audiences

If this sounds like your next challenge, and you have the right skills and experience, please apply.