3042 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
Principal Developer / Architect
£40,000 - 70,000
Ruskin Avenue, Sutton South
£40,000 - 70,000
Requirements
Must:
- 8–10+ years in software engineering and/or solution architecture
- Experience operating at Senior/Principal level in enterprise environments
- Strong background in distributed, cloud-native, and data-intensive systems
- Deep AWS experience (essential)
- Strong data modeling and data architecture skills
- Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST/event-driven services; good knowledge of Angular/Node.js
- Solid understanding of CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and modern DevOps practices
- Experience with observability, security-by-design, and high-availability systems
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills
Responsibilities
- Define and govern architecture, development, and data standards
- Design and review solution architectures, assessing risks and trade-offs
- Build PoCs and technical spikes to validate decisions and technologies
- Provide architectural leadership across multiple products and teams
- Improve system performance, reliability, scalability, and resilience
- Lead data modeling and contribute to data architecture standards
- Collaborate with senior architects, engineering leads, product teams, and external partners
- Ensure designs meet SLAs, security, compliance, and operational requirements
Description
We are a financial-technology company seeking a Principal Developer with strong architectural capability to shape the technical direction of our complex, data-driven product suite. This role offers an opportunity to lead technical strategy, ensuring the resilience and scalability of our major platform. We emphasize a collaborative environment and value innovative contributions from our team members. Join us to influence the future of financial technology.
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