Principal Engineer

📋 Description

• Setting the architecture direction across the shared services, and making sure each one can run
• Keeping the flagship app's internationalisation coherent as the services underneath it change.
• Owning the seams: how the shared services interact across and within regions.
• Data residency: deciding what data is shared, what stays regional and what never leaves a region
• Kafka in both worlds: self-contained within an isolated region, and replicated across regions where
• Terraform and Kubernetes that stand up a new region repeatably, with explicit regional config and

🎯 Requirements

• Stood production systems up in new, isolated regions under data-residency rules, and taken systems
• Been the architecture lead across several teams or services, not just one.
• Current, senior Go, and enough React to change it with confidence.
• Deep working knowledge of Cassandra, Postgres and Kafka in distributed setups.
• Kubernetes and Terraform experience at the level of designing platforms, not just using them.
• The confidence to say "this will not work" to a client, with evidence.

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible working, including hybrid and remote options.
• Office hubs in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria.
• Supportive and friendly culture surrounded by smart, curious people.
• Real investment in your growth both professionally and personally.
• Impact over activity.