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Principal Software Engineer
- Salary to £80k, poss higher for their Unicorn candidate
- Role can be based remotely, as long as you can occasionally travel to London for client work (travel expenses paid)- approx. once a month.
NB: Please only apply if you are a UK National, have resided in the UK for the past 5 years and are prepared to go through UK SC Security Clearance. Proof of ID will be required prior to interview.
This role is with a growing is a technology consultancy. This is a hands-on principal engineering role: architecture ownership across multiple services, technical leadership across teams, and direct contribution to engineering standards and hiring. Their successful candidate will be writing code as well as setting direction – this is not a purely architectural or management position. Current delivery is a Java/Spring Boot microservices platform on AWS EKS, with a Next.js frontend and Camunda-based process orchestration.
Essential
Experience level: 10+ years minimum, principal or staff grade equivalent.
Backend and cloud:
Java 17 or 21, at expert level – modern language features
Spring Boot in depth: security, transaction management, async/reactive
Microservices architecture design – has designed services from scratch
Kubernetes and Docker in production (not local development use)
AWS, hands-on: EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, EventBridge
CI/CD pipeline ownership
Automated testing discipline: JUnit, Mockito, integration testing, TDD or BDD
Frontend:
Held a lead or tech lead role on frontend development in React. xwwtmva Leadership must have been over React work itself.
Understands and has implemented FFE/BFE separation – the split between the presentati
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