Lead Principal Software Engineer
hace 18 días
Manchester
Principal Software Engineer (Platform Leadership) Manchester (Hybrid – 2 days onsite) £110k + 20% bonus + £7k car allowance No visa sponsorship available The Opportunity This is NOT ANOTHER Principal role. This is a “Principal of Principals” position - a rare opportunity to sit at the centre of a greenfield, enterprise-scale SaaS platform that is redefining how a complex, high-volume ecosystem connects, operates, and scales. You’ll be shaping a revolutionary connected platform - bringing together multiple systems, data streams, and services into a single, intelligent, event-driven architecture designed to operate at serious scale. This is the kind of role where: • The problems are real, • The scale is meaningful, • And your decisions actually shape the future of the platform What You’ll Be Building • A greenfield, cloud-native SaaS platform, • Designed around event-driven, distributed architecture, • Connecting multiple services, products, and data domains into a unified ecosystem This is platform creation at enterprise scale. Your Role in It You won’t just contribute — you’ll define how it’s done. • Act as the technical authority across multiple teams and domains, • Set engineering standards across architecture, design, and delivery, • Guide and mentor other senior and principal engineers, • Make high-impact architectural decisions that shape the platform long-term, • Stay hands-on where it matters — this is not an ivory tower role, • Partner closely with Product and Data to solve complex, high-value problems Tech Environment • .NET (core to everything), • Azure cloud ecosystem, • Event-driven architecture (messaging, streaming, async processing), • Microservices and distributed systems, • CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices, • High-performance data processing and system optimisation Why This Role Stands Out Greenfield, done properly No legacy constraints - you’ll help define: • Architecture, • Patterns, • Standards, • Ways of working Enterprise scale, real impact This isn’t theory - the platform will: • Power critical business operations, • Process high volumes of data and transactions, • Be used daily across multiple regions World class engineering environment You’ll be surrounded by: • Strong senior engineers, • Modern practices, • A genuine push to raise the technical bar Career-defining role This is the kind of role that leads to: • Head of Engineering, • Architecture leadership, • Platform ownership at scale What We’re Looking For • Deep experience in .NET / backend engineering, • Proven track record building scalable, distributed systems, • Experience in enterprise SaaS or platform environments, • Strong architectural thinking — able to design for scale, resilience, and performance, • Someone who can lead technically, influence broadly, and still stay hands-on Important • No visa sponsorship available, • Must be able to work 2 days per week onsite in Manchester The Honest Sell This role is for someone who: • Is already operating at a high level, • Wants to work on bigger, more meaningful problems, • Wants to shape a platform, not just contribute to one, • Still enjoys being close to the code, but wants real influence