Principal Software Engineer
On site
London, United Kingdom
Freelance
04-03-2025
Job Specifications
Principal Software Engineer
Location: London 2x a week
Contract: 6 months
Rate: Competitive market rate, Inside IR35
Would you be interested in joining a global loyalty business that's in the process of completely modernising their technology stack, working on greenfield projects?
As Principal Software Engineer you will be responsible for spearheading a platform that empowers the engineering community to build solutions rapidly, using API's to access core platform capabilities. You will balance integrating best in class SaaS where that forms part of the platform ecosystem, along with building unique solutions.
What will I be doing?
Manage and guide a team of platform engineers
Implement effective tools and SaaS
Support the product and technology team on new and existing systems
Champion agile best practices and Continuous Delivery
What do I need to be successful?
Strong experience with JavaScript and Typescript technologies - React and Node.js
Experience working with other programming languages such as Go, Python and Rust is desirable
AWS clouds and it's associated services (EKS, Lambda, Aurora RDS)
Kubernetes and GraphQL
Testing frameworks, such as Pact and Jest
Hands-on architecture and development
Infrastructure as code - Terraform, Helm and GitHub Actions
If this role sounds of interest - apply today!
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age
About the Company
We’re an independent, service driven recruitment agency that sources high quality, talented individuals to fill permanent and contract roles across the Technology, Clean Technology & Cyber Security sectors. Since we were established in March 2008 we’ve achieved outstanding success with clients and candidates throughout the UK, US and Europe. We’ve built up rewarding relationships with many of them that continue to this day. Our success is based on four key attributes: • our skills and expertise in the recruitment profess... Know more
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