RVU

Principal Engineer

RVU

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cardiff • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsGoPythonReact

About the role

  • Define the vision: Own and articulate the long-term technical vision and architectural strategy.
  • Drive strategic impact: Identify and execute high-leverage technical initiatives (impacting a vertical or the entire organisation) that directly translate into measurable business growth or significant operational efficiency gains.
  • Architectural stewardship: Design, govern, and audit the most complex and critical systems, ensuring they are scalable, resilient, and maintainable over a multi-year horizon.
  • Technical evolution: Continuously evaluate new tools, technologies, and paradigms, making strategic recommendations to adopt or deprecate them to keep our engineering ecosystem best-in-class.
  • Organisational influence: Influence and align engineering and product strategy across multiple teams and business units
  • Mentorship & coaching: Act as a principal mentor and coach to all engineers, elevating the technical expertise and standards across the entire engineering organisation.
  • Conflict resolution: Resolve the most high-stakes, cross-team technical and non-technical conflicts, building consensus among senior stakeholders.
  • Communication: Communicate complex technical decisions and their strategic implications to leadership and non-technical audiences effectively.
  • Autonomy & accountability: Operate with complete autonomy on high-impact objectives, holding yourself and adjacent teams accountable for long-term success.
  • Best practice champion: Define, implement, and enforce best-in-class software practices, operational excellence, and quality standards (e.g., CI/CD, production readiness, testing).
  • Risk management: Proactively identify and mitigate significant technical debt, security risks, and operational vulnerabilities that could pose a threat to the business’s long-term health.

Requirements

  • Excellent understanding of Cloud technologies, and their application to solve problems such as Event/Data Ingestion and 3rd Party API Integrations. As well as a strong appreciation of A/B Testing, Monitoring and DevOps principles.
  • Deep technical knowledge across modern frameworks (Go, React, .Net, Python), capable of solving undefined, novel, or highly complex problems within a major domain area.
  • Extensive experience designing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale, distributed systems and can manage the infrastructure and scalability strategy across multiple teams.
  • Define what "Production Ready" means, ensuring security, resilience, and operational excellence.
  • You are a gifted communicator who can translate technical complexity into strategic business context, influencing senior leaders and peers effectively.
  • Actively mentor and sponsor senior talent, elevating engineering capability and culture across large parts of the business.
  • Proven ability to manage organisational change, driving large-scale programs from ambiguous conception through to successful, measurable strategic impact.
  • Identify the most critical problems, develop the solution, and execute it without explicit direction.
Benefits
  • 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
  • A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
  • Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
  • A one-off £300 “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
  • Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
  • 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
  • Private medical cover, critical illness cover , dental plans and employee assistance programme
  • Free gym access
  • Employee discounts programme
  • A healthy learning and training budget to support your development
  • Electric vehicle and cycle to work scheme
  • Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected

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Hard skills
Cloud technologiesEvent/Data Ingestion3rd Party API IntegrationsA/B TestingMonitoringDevOps principlesGoReact.NetPython
Soft skills
communicationmentorshipconflict resolutionautonomyaccountabilityinfluenceorganizational change managementproblem-solving