Principal Software Engineer – Food

MS Companies

Principal Software Engineer driving modernization of mission-critical food systems at M&S. Leading technical initiatives and mentoring teams in an engineering-led organization.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead technical excellence from design to operations and launch of core product features
Drive technical direction and influence our overall strategy
Champion Communities of Practice
Lead by example via contributions to our engineering ecosystem
Pioneer and promote methodologies like clean code and clean architecture
Advocate for engineering productivity, delivery quality and operational excellence
Drive DevOps practices to automate the Product development life cycle
Partner with both Engineering, Technology and Product leadership
Develop the best and mentor other senior engineering roles
Promote effective innovation across all of engineering
Advocate and strategize for continuous industrialisation and product-minded tech capabilities
Inspire ideas to foster purpose and mastery to engineering teams
Amplify engineering teams by efficiently unblocking them
Raise the profile of MS Tech through public content
Support recruitment, onboarding and internal and external brand outreach activities

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant track record of strategic and innovative thinking, as well as execution and implementation
Specialist in clean code and implementation of design patterns for common problems
Depth of knowledge in Information Security
Confident driving system design conversations
Able to analyse current processes
Experience of using a variety of methods of prototyping
Strong ability to influence industry-based models
Strong understanding of quality assurance
Ability to lead senior engineers
Authoritative skills at cloud computing
Experience with implementation of Observability and Reliability
Good experience with Performance Engineering
Expertise in reliability testing
Able to influence people at senior levels

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Flexible working hours
Professional development opportunities
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

clean codeclean architectureDevOps practicesInformation Securitysystem designprototyping methodsquality assurancecloud computingObservabilityReliability

Soft Skills

strategic thinkinginnovative thinkingexecutionimplementationinfluenceleadershipmentoringcommunicationproblem-solvingteam unblocking