TL;DR

Principal Backend Engineer: Leading and mentoring a team of engineers in developing scalable and secure products and platforms, ensuring exceptional customer outcomes efficiently. Focus on aligning technical direction with long-term organizational goals and improving team efficiency by addressing technical blockers.

Location: London

Company

%hirify_global% supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

What you will do

Spearhead the development of scalable, secure, and well-architected products and platforms.
Act as a leader to align with the long-term goals of the organisation.
Transform strategic direction into tangible technology and viable engineering approaches.
Oversee technical work across multiple development teams to reduce duplication and enhance collaboration.
Partner with and enable engineering leaders, mentoring engineers to help them grow.
Conduct research on relevant technologies and identify opportunities to incorporate them.

Requirements

Backend Staff Engineer, with technical knowledge of: Java Springboot, Software testing frameworks and strategies, CI/CD and associated release strategies, Secure development strategies, Microservices patterns/ framework, AWS.
Experience in contributing and influencing technical direction is essential.
Experience in setting technical direction and providing effective engineering perspectives.
Experience of guiding, coaching and mentoring colleagues is essential.

Culture & Benefits

The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes.
Generous pension contribution.
Life assurance.
Private medical insurance (permanent employees only).
At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service.
Participate in our electric car scheme.