2151 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
Principal Engineer
£100,000 - 110,000
Socium Recruitment
Goods Yard Street 18, Manchester
£100,000 - 110,000
Requirements
Must:
- Experience operating at Principal / Staff Engineer level in complex environments
- Strong TypeScript / JavaScript background
- Solid experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Knowledge of a high-performance language (Go is ideal)
- Experience designing distributed, cloud-native systems on AWS
- Strong grasp of API-first, event-driven, and microservices architecture
- Comfortable influencing across teams without formal authority
- A pragmatic mindset – balancing technical quality with real business outcomes
Responsibilities
- Defining architecture patterns used across multiple squads and services
- Designing and evolving a complex, workflow-heavy platform at serious scale
- Leading cross-team technical initiatives (APIs, cloud patterns, DevOps)
- Partnering with product and delivery to shape technical direction – not just react to it
- Mentoring senior engineers and tech leads, raising the bar across teams
- Championing automation, observability, and “we build it, we run it”
- Tackling systemic problems early – scalability, reliability, developer experience
- Exploring AI and modern tooling to improve how teams build and ship
Description
We are excited to offer a rare opportunity to join our company as a Principal Engineer in Manchester (Hybrid). In this role, you will have the chance to shape the architecture of a large, mission-critical B2B platform as we establish three new squads. You won’t be asked to fix a broken setup; instead, you’ll have the autonomy and trust to develop robust systems where scale, reliability, and compliance genuinely matter. We value mentoring and collaboration, ensuring that you leave systems better than you found them.
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