Principal Engineer, Data and AI
Pleo
AirflowAWSBigQueryCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaKubernetesPythonSQL
Lead Engineer, Go
GBG Plc
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
Tech Stack
CloudElasticSearchGoKubernetesMongoDBSQL
About the role
- Take ownership of the technical design, delivery, and documentation of our address search products as we scale to support millions of transactions per day
- Combine hands-on development with technical lead/architecture responsibilities
- Raise the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence
- Mentor and coach others to help them be the best they can be
- Balance agility with scalability and availability; support continuous deployment and incremental releases
- Take responsibility for platform health and observability; use data to understand user behaviour and drive product development
- Collaborate closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers and other Technical Leads; no line management responsibility
Requirements
- A strong foundation in software engineering principles and deep knowledge of a high-level programming language (Go is used heavily)
- Experience working with distributed cloud systems, using containers and infrastructure as code
- Experience with Kubernetes across different cloud platforms
- Strong knowledge of database technologies used with algorithmic searching (ElasticSearch, SQL Server, MongoDB)
- Experience designing algorithmic software for scale, performance, and high availability
- Previous experience of being the primary technical leader in a team and collaborating with other teams and stakeholders
- A passion for promoting engineering excellence through coaching and guidance
- Understanding of different architectural and design patterns and an appreciation of when to use them
- Experience shipping fast, reliable, real-time applications using modern development tools and practices
- Nice to have: understanding of GitOps and experience with tools such as Argo CD
- Nice to have: experience with SQL and data warehousing/pipelining tools
- Nice to have: hands-on experience with AI tooling to enhance engineering workflows
- Nice to have: understanding of machine learning principles for developing advanced ranking algorithms
- Nice to have: proven experience navigating and transforming legacy codebases and leading greenfield projects
- Nice to have: polyglot programming ability to identify and use the right tool for the job
ATS Keywords
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Hard skills
GoKubernetesElasticSearchSQL ServerMongoDBalgorithmic software designreal-time applicationsGitOpsdata warehousingmachine learning principles
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentoringcoachingcollaborationengineering excellenceagilityscalabilityoperational excellencecommunicationproblem-solving
