Principal Engineer

📋 Description

• Bring architectural coherence to decisions across domains
• Identify technical risks before they become incidents
• Set standards for engineering quality — design, observability, reliability, API design
• Be the senior technical voice in cross-team planning and roadmaps
• Mentor and stretch the most senior engineers across the org

🎯 Requirements

• Has operated at principal or staff level in a data-intensive, fast-moving engineering org
• Deep experience with complex data modelling, entity resolution, and data pipelines in production
• Proven experience shipping AI/LLM systems — RAG, structured extraction, evaluation frameworks
• Strong backend and distributed systems knowledge: APIs, service architecture, scalability, observability
• Proficiency in Python; comfort across the stack where it matters
• Owns problems, not just opinions; writes code when it matters and is accountable

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive salary (top end of the market)
• Equity options
• Pension (4% with 9fin matching up to 7%)
• Private medical insurance
• Paid sick leave with income protection
• Hybrid working model