Principal Engineer
RedCat Digital · Bracknell, England ·
Last confirmed by our partners on 25 Oct 2026.
Overview
In this Principal Engineer role, you will provide high-impact technical leadership to guide architecture, DevOps, and cloud initiatives within a market-leading financial services organization. You will influence tech leads and senior management on best practices, helping to deliver robust client-facing and internal software. You will design scalable solutions, champion quality and resiliency, and drive engineering excellence across teams. This is a chance to shape technology strategy and build cutting-edge, cloud-based solutions at scale.
Pay / Benefits
- 120,000 + discretionary bonus
- Medical Insurance
- Other Benefits
Responsibilities
- Influence and guide tech leads and senior management on engineering best practices
- Lead architecture development, DevOps practices, and cloud-based technology initiatives
- Drive design excellence for quality, reliability, and resiliency
- Scope complex tasks and deliver mature, scalable technical designs
- Provide expert technical leadership and mentoring to the team
Key requirements
- React (incl. Hooks) and frontend tech (JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, ES6, HTML/CSS)
- Storybook and UI design experience
- Backend expertise with C#, .NET, MS SQL Server, RESTful APIs
- Substantial Azure experience
- Strong proponent of TDD and high test coverage, SOLID principles
- leadership and influence
- collaboration and cross-functional communication
- mentoring and coaching
- React with Hooks
- TypeScript
- Node.js
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