Principal Software Engineer

Company: Accenture
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Location: Leeds
Job Description:

Overview

In this Principal Software Engineer role, you will lead experienced engineering teams to deliver end-to-end digital products for client organizations. You will balance hands-on delivery with leadership, shaping strategy and ensuring high-quality engineering outcomes. The role combines client-facing account leadership with hands-on development across modern stacks and cloud platforms. You’ll work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment focused on value delivery and scalable solutions.

Pay / Benefits

  • 30 dagen vacation per year
  • private medical insurance
  • 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work

Responsibilities

  • Lead client accounts holistically—people, delivery, quality, and commercial aspects
  • Mentor and grow team members and build strong stakeholder relationships
  • Develop backend services across various integration paradigms (synchronous, message-driven, event-driven)
  • Architect and deliver cloud-native applications on AWS and/or Azure
  • Define product/service strategies and deliver repeatable, automated tests
  • Promote value-focused, low-complexity solutions and advocate for best engineering practices
  • Contribute to internal engineering communities and share knowledge across teams
  • Adapt to different client domains and tech stacks to drive outcomes

Key requirements

  • Significant experience leading teams and growing careers
  • Strong stakeholder relationship skills with a results-oriented mindset
  • Extensive backend experience across multiple integration paradigms
  • Fluency in Java / C# / Python / TypeScript or React
  • Recent experience building, deploying, and running cloud-native apps on AWS and/or Azure
  • Experience defining strategies and delivering products/services using Agentic AI, with optional professional certification
  • Experience in DevOps practices and automated testing
  • egoless collaboration
  • strong communication with stakeholders
  • problem-solving and adaptability
  • Java
  • C#
  • Python

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Posted: October 22nd, 2026