Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer

Full Time, Permanent

Crawley, West Sussex (Hybrid Working)

We’re motivated by helping people to save for their future. Everything we do is about fairness and simplicity, rather than profit. And we know that delivering an exceptional service is only made possible by the outstanding individuals that work for us.

That’s why we actively support our employees’ career progression and wellbeing by providing:

• benefits and rewards
• learning and development opportunities
• social facilities and events
• opportunities to contribute to community
• a caring, supportive environment led by our company values.

As a Principal Engineer for our dynamic and growing team, you will play a crucial role in architecting the development and maintenance of our applications, ensuring optimal system structures, efficiency, and adherence to industry best practices. Your expertise in software system design and software architecture will be central to the success of our projects. Beyond technical proficiency, you will be a leader, mentor, and motivator, leveraging your skills to bring out the best in your team.

Collaborating closely with the Principal Engineering Lead, your role entails guiding teams in technical processes, addressing security vulnerabilities, enforcing coding standards, and promoting best practices. Your extensive experience as a senior "full stack" developer has equipped you with a diverse skill set and a demonstrated capability to lead and influence technical teams. This role involves active participation in an Agile delivery environment, fostering collaboration with peers and management.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the design and creation of the technical governance across the Squads.
• Definition and implementation of development standards and best practise.
• Ensure best practices and standards are followed and help run brown bag sessions to upskill the team.
• Coordinate and validate estimates with Squad Leads for development and drive-up consistency.
• Identification of tech debt, security & business impact analysis. Work with Product Owners to get items included in the backlog and prioritised appropriately.
• Work with Solution Architecture to influence solution and ensure High Level Designs are implemented as intended.

Qualifications:

• Highly capable in creating Software Solutions
• Expert in Software Development Lifecycle
• Hands on experience with Web technologies Microsoft .NET, C#, JavaScript, CSS and HTML, VSTS.
• SQL /TSQL / SQL Server including database design
• Experience building and maintaining Azure DevOps Yaml CI/CD pipelines.
• Public Cloud expertise, including IaaS, PaaS, Serverless, Microservices, SaaS - particularly Azure.

Perks:

Our people are our strength so finding ways to value and reward them is important to us. That’s why we offer an award-winning pension - it’s what we’re good at - plus health care cover, an onsite gym, access to a personal trainer… even the odd massage. And if they’re feeling peckish after all that activity, they can always refuel in our subsidised restaurant or grab some free fruit - we get a big delivery every week.

Discover more of People's Partnership employee benefits including our training programme, which is designed to give our people the support they need to develop a fulfilling career.

Disability Statement:

People's Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People's Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best "you".