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Principal Software Engineer – Core Product

Full-stack EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 51-200H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United Kingdom

Posted

5 days ago

Salary

£100K - £120K / year

Seniority

Lead

Bachelor DegreeEnglishAWSMySQLNode.jsPHPPythonReactSDLC

Job Description

Principal Software Engineer – Core Product

Arbor Education

• Own and deliver clear target architectures, strategies and roadmaps to support our product suite and strategic direction. • Partner with Technical Leads to provide hands-on guidance supporting feature delivery, tech debt paydown, and architecture improvements. (Hands-on for this role means staying close to the details but not necessarily coding) • Collaborate with Product Directors to understand product vision and translate this into deliverables, aligning commercial and engineering goals. • Lead our shift to an AI-First way of working, architecting new SDLC foundations and championing the latest approaches to help drive productivity gains across all teams • Mentor and coach Technical Leads/Senior Engineers on architectural and engineering excellence, continually raising our bar and supporting career growth • Act as a role model for technical leadership — work with pace, be pragmatic, and stay laser focused on outcomes not output • Head up architectural reviews for your domain and ensure all designs meet Arbor’s quality, reliability, security and compliance standards. • Collaborate with Staff Engineers and Principal Engineers to shape Arbor’s broader technology strategy, working outside your domain as needed • Partner with Engineering Management to help grow teams, identify dependencies/risks, and report progress against strategic goals

Job Requirements

  • Extensive track record of delivering outcomes and leading across large, complex product suites, within a scaling and fast-moving environment.
  • Broad understanding of software architecture, system design, and scalable integration patterns observed from a range of environments
  • Examples of communication and influencing across technical and non-technical audiences to achieve positive outcomes.
  • An ability to support the growth of engineers and technical leads whilst still delivering value across distributed, cross-functional teams.
  • Demonstrable experience working in an ownership culture where quality, performance, observability, and security are a core responsibility for every engineer
  • Deep experience guiding teams in architectural design, de-risking complex initiatives through MVP/0-1 thinking, and framework adoption
  • An understanding and opinion on how AI-first engineering will change the SDLC and ways of working, ideally with worked examples
  • Examples of contributing to or leading technical communities of practice (e.g. chapters, guilds, architecture councils).
  • Practical knowledge of and exposure to some of our core stack or equivalent technologies - PHP, Node, React, Python, MySQL, AWS
  • Experience navigating between monolithic and distributed architectures with a pragmatic understanding of the value of each

Benefits

  • A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!
  • 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
  • Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
  • Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks
  • Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
  • Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows
  • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay
  • 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!
  • Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
  • All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you
  • Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success
  • Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)
  • Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year
  • Dog friendly offices!

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