Principal Engineer
2 days ago
Manchester
Senior VP, Full Stack Engineer –JAVA Manchester- on site Salary: £100,000 We’re partnered with a global financial services organisation seeking a Senior VP Full Stack Engineer to lead from the front-driving mission-critical delivery, shaping engineering standards, and building high-performing teams. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on engineering leader who thrives in agile environments and enjoys solving complex business challenges through scalable, secure, and resilient technology solutions. You’ll play a key role in shaping engineering standards, leading talented teams, and delivering critical systems end-to-end. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role with real influence across architecture, people, and technology. What you’ll do • Lead, coach, and scale high-performing engineering teams, • Own end-to-end delivery of critical systems (design → deploy → optimise), • Drive engineering excellence across microservices, APIs, testing, and DevOps, • Champion secure, resilient, and observable platforms, • Partner with product and business leaders to deliver measurable outcomes, • Proven leadership of engineering teams in agile environments, • Strong Java (Spring) expertise and microservices architecture, • Experience building scalable, observable, testable systems, • Solid DevOps mindset: CI/CD, TDD, automation, containers, • Hands-on experience with AI tools and integrating AI into products Java, Spring, Angular, Docker, GitLab, Splunk, AppDynamics A high-impact leadership role at scale -owning delivery, shaping teams, and driving modern engineering in a complex, regulated environment.