Principal Software Engineer

RELX

Uk, United Kingdom
Influence technical direction across teams
Hands-on contribution to complex challenges
Shape domain architecture
As a Principal Engineer, you will help teams do their best work by improving engineering practices, reducing delivery risk, and fostering a culture of trust, learning, and high standards

Job Summary

  • As a Principal Engineer, you will help teams do their best work by improving engineering practices, reducing delivery risk, and fostering a culture of trust, learning, and high standards.
  • This role combines technical leadership, hands-on contribution, and partnership with product, engineering, and architecture leaders.
  • We promote a healthy work/life balance and provide various well-being initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals to help you meet both your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals.

Matching Summary

As a Principal Engineer, you will help teams do their best work by improving engineering practices, reducing delivery risk, and fostering a culture of trust, learning, and high standards.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Influence technical direction across teams
  • Hands-on contribution to complex challenges
  • Shape domain architecture
  • Improve engineering practices
  • Reduce delivery risk
  • Foster a culture of trust and learning
  • Improve operational excellence

Nice-to-have

  • Connect technical decisions to customer outcomes
  • Partner with product and architecture leaders
  • Varied experiences and perspectives
  • Promote healthy work/life balance

Key Requirements

  • Senior technical leader experience
  • Experience designing distributed systems
  • Experience modernizing systems
  • Experience with cloud-native patterns
  • Experience leading cross-team architectural change
  • Bachelor's/Master's degree or equivalent experience

Work Rights

Not specified

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