Principal Engineer

📋 Description

• Set AI up to succeed: treat context engineering as a craft (right files, specs, examples
• Review and choose well: read far more code than you write, catch silent assumptions, security
• Work effectively with non-determinism: see where AI moves the bottleneck, help people unblock the
• Provide technical breadth across the full stack: depth in at least one area but competence
• Apply system thinking, consulting and commercial judgement in a consultancy context, framing
• Take leadership mentality: raise the level of everyone around you, make decisions and own them

🎯 Requirements

• Outcome obsessed and intellectually honest about uncertainty
• Deeply pragmatic, holds opinions loosely, decides for the systems in front of you
• Bias toward delivery: smallest thing that works, then iterate
• Relentlessly curious beyond immediate need (e.g., how database stores things, why a Claude Opus
• Fluent with AI as a first-class competency
• Python, Java, Node.js, TypeScript, React, AWS, GCP

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible working, including hybrid and remote options
• Office hubs in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria with occasional travel to client
• Trust to manage your own time balancing collaboration and focused work
• Real investment in growth both professionally and personally
• Supportive and friendly culture surrounded by smart, curious people