Principal Software Engineer (AWS)

Location: London, United Kingdom; 12-month fixed-term contract with a flexible 35-hour working week.

Salary: £78,000–£85,000 per year, plus a London Weighting Allowance of £5,441.

Company

hirify.global Studios produces and distributes TV, audio, and digital content as part of the hirify.global.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end development of work order fulfilment software within a media supply chain transformation programme.
• Build modern cloud-native and serverless workflows that support global content operations.
• Plan team capacity and delivery priorities across support, maintenance, security, technical debt, and new features.
• Coordinate technical integrations and issue resolution with third-party technical teams.
• Collaborate with architects, product teams, and developers on iterative, operationally sustainable designs.
• Champion engineering improvement, observability, scalability, maintainability, AI-assisted approaches, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• Hands-on technical leadership experience with AWS serverless and cloud-native architectures.
• Proven experience leading technical teams in a DevOps environment using Agile methodology.
• Experience managing technical integrations and working directly with third-party technical teams to coordinate changes and resolve issues.
• Expertise with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, SNS, SQS, and EventBridge.
• Strong TypeScript and Python skills.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing for serverless or microservices systems.
• Experience with at least two of DynamoDB, Aurora PostgreSQL, MongoDB/DocumentDB, or similar NoSQL solutions.
• AWS Associate-level certification or equivalent experience building serverless solutions.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of media processing workflows, including transcoding and metadata pipelines.
• Django experience or a strong desire to learn it.
• Familiarity with Polaris by Fabric Insights, Rally by SDVI, or comparable media workflow platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working can be discussed during the application and offer stages.
• Flexible 35-hour working week, 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, and the option to buy five additional days.
• Defined pension with up to 10% employer contributions, caring and parenting support, remote GP access, life assurance, and accident benefit.
• Career development in an inclusive, values-led culture focused on innovation and sustainability.
• Employment screening includes reference and eligibility-to-work checks; additional safeguarding and adverse media/social media checks may apply.

Hiring process

• Applications must be submitted online; applications via CV are not accepted.
• Offers are conditional on satisfactory employment screening and any required disclosure of unspent convictions or police charges.