Principal Engineer

Opus 2

full-time

Posted on: 1/8/2026

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Edinburgh • United Kingdom

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About the role

Define and evolve the technical vision and architecture across multiple product areas.
Lead the design and delivery of high-impact, cross-squad initiatives and platform-level capabilities.
Act as a trusted technical advisor to Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers, and Product leadership.
Establish and promote engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across teams.
Identify systemic technical risks and proactively drive solutions before they impact delivery or customers.
Influence roadmap decisions by balancing business needs, technical constraints, and long-term platform health.
Champion modern engineering practices including CI/CD, observability, automated testing, and secure-by-design development.
Drive the effective and responsible use of AI across the SDLC to improve quality, delivery speed, and developer productivity.
Mentor and coach senior engineers and staff engineers, raising the overall technical bar of the organisation.

Deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant SaaS platforms, and API-first architectures.
Strong full-stack background with a focus on TypeScript; experience with Java and/or Go is highly desirable.
Proven experience designing and evolving systems on AWS, including serverless architectures; familiarity with Kubernetes.
Frontend and backend framework experience, including React and Spring.
Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams, not just within a single squad.
Excellent mentoring, coaching, and technical communication skills.
Strong understanding of scalability, performance, security, and operational reliability.
Typically 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including senior technical leadership roles.

Benefits

Contributory pension plan.
33 days annual holidays, flexible working, and length of service entitlement.
Health Insurance.
Loyalty Share Scheme.
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity.
Employee Assistance Programme.
Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice.
Cycle to Work Scheme.
Calm and Mindfulness sessions.
A day of leave to volunteer for charity and an active CSR team raising money towards a company charity.
Regular Company Social Events.
Yearly Development Retreat.

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