Principal Software Engineer (Agentic AI)

Location: Leeds, United Kingdom, with travel to client sites throughout the UK and time onsite with clients and partners; Manchester is also listed.

Company

hirify.global is a global professional services company delivering strategy, consulting, technology, operations, and digital product engineering services to clients across sectors.

What you will do

• Lead client accounts across people, delivery, quality, and commercial outcomes.
• Build and deliver digital products, backend services, and cloud-native applications with clients.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership while guiding engineers and growing team members’ careers.
• Define strategies and deliver products and services using Agentic AI.
• Contribute to engineering communities, share expertise, and help shape technical practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver efficient, low-complexity solutions and measurable results.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading teams and developing team members’ careers.
• Experience building stakeholder relationships and delivering expected results.
• Several years of experience building backend services across synchronous API-driven, message-driven, and event-driven integration paradigms.
• Professional fluency in at least one of Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, or React.
• Recent experience building, deploying, and operating cloud-native applications on AWS and/or Azure.
• Strong practical experience defining strategies and building and delivering products and services using Agentic AI; professional-level certification may be included.
• Experience working in DevOps teams using industry-standard practices.
• Experience producing repeatable, automated tests for personal work.
• Collaborative, egoless approach to building products and solving problems with people at all experience levels.
• Comfort with change and willingness to learn new technologies, domains, roles, and stacks as consulting requirements change.
• An offer is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance, requiring 5 years of continuous UK address history at the point of application.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a software and platform engineering group of more than 1,000 people with access to training and a global expert network.
• Work across client sectors, including scale-ups, blue-chip companies, and public sector organisations.
• 30 days of vacation per year.
• Private medical insurance.
• 3 additional days of leave per year for charitable work.
• Flexibility and mobility are required because the role includes onsite work with clients and partners.

Hiring process

• Applications close on 28/02/2027, although the role may close earlier if a suitable applicant is found.
• Employment is conditional on satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance.