Principal Software Engineer
Company
Location
Winnersh, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/13/2025
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Description
Job Description
The Principal Software Engineer is responsible for the architecture, design and development of major product features. They provides guidance, mentoring and support to other engineers and drive the overall process of development and delivery. They are responsible for architectural designs, design issue, setting and maintaining coding standards, and the overall consistency and quality of the final solution. They prepare and communicate major design decisions, understanding the implications and are responsible for escalating and highlighting important or difficult decisions, ensuring that the tradeoffs are considered and well reasoned processes are used to reach decisions.
*** This is a hybrid position - working 3 days a week from our Winnersh office. ***
Must have:
The Principal Software Engineer is responsible for the architecture, design and development of major product features. They provides guidance, mentoring and support to other engineers and drive the overall process of development and delivery. They are responsible for architectural designs, design issue, setting and maintaining coding standards, and the overall consistency and quality of the final solution. They prepare and communicate major design decisions, understanding the implications and are responsible for escalating and highlighting important or difficult decisions, ensuring that the tradeoffs are considered and well reasoned processes are used to reach decisions.
*** This is a hybrid position - working 3 days a week from our Winnersh office. ***
- Technically lead and contribute to our software engineering projects to deliver products that generate immediate customer value and deliver high-quality, broadly applicable and reusable code.
- Drive automation at all levels of development to speed delivery, adopting a continuous improvement approach
- Organize collaboration with members of their team and other teams to deliver functional and technically consistent features
- An active participant in design, architecture and technical planning
- Continuously build technical knowledge and mentor team members to drive excellence in engineering as a cohesive, efficient, and productive unit
Must have:
- 7+ years of experience designing, developing and shipping software
- Knowledge in ERPs (e-commerce, purchasing, sales and manufacturing)
- Expertise in Javascript/Typescript, Node.js, GraphQL, Visual Studio Code, git/GitHub, WSL2 and Linux environment
- Experience with RDBMS especially PostgreSQL
- Inclusive, collaborative and growth-mindset approach
- Excellent verbal and written communication ability including fluency in English
- Strong skills in Agile development, continuous integration, and the cultivation and maintenance of high quality code.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or comparable practical professional experience
- Depth of experience in architecture and design
- Experience in functional testing using Cucumber
- Experience working within and technically leading geographically dispersed, diverse, and virtual teams
- Team-oriented, keen to share knowledge, and open to giving (and receiving) continuous feedback.
- Use to write clean, performant, tested, and maintainable code.
- Proponent of best practices and have a great knowledge of tools that help enforce them.
- Strong communicator and love collaborating with other teams.
- Self-starter and able to work autonomously to identify and solve problems.
- An experienced mentor and coach, developing colleagues skills
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