Principal Software Engineer

 

 
About Engineering

There’s around 70 of us in the engineering team and we play a key part in bringing our AI to life. We collaborate closely with the Research teams who are responsible for developing our core AI models, we then enable that AI capability to be deployed to real world problems by building out products using modern open-source technologies and best practices.

You will be working out how we can best help millions of people around the world recover faster from an accident.  We’re proud to see our products have a massive impact on people daily… and we know this is just the beginning.

What you will do

• Serve as a technical leader on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
• Fully and completely understand system inter-dependencies and limitations.
• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience. You are a visionary leader, builder and an operator.
• Balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgement to make the right decisions about technology choices.

What you need to be successful

• Extensive experience and expertise in software development; you are currently at either Staff or Principal level
• Exceptional coding skills and demonstrable experience implementing and elevating coding standards across teams
• Ideally strong experience of developing building machine learning products & platforms
• Strong architectural design skills
• Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate and convey complex ideas to diverse stakeholders.
• Strong ownership mentality and self-drive
• Successful track record of driving software best practices and driving them across teams

What’s in it for you

Generous financial reward for your effort

• Twice a year compensation reviews
• Generous equity package
• 5% employer match on pension

Time off and flexible working

• 25 days paid annual leave + bank holidays
• Ability to work from abroad for up to 6 weeks/year
• Competitive maternity + paternity leave
• Flexible hours and hybrid working 
• Additional leave to support you when you need it, including sick pay, compassionate leave, or paid time-off to recharge after an intense work period

Support for your health and wellbeing

• Highest tier of private health coverage through Bupa 
• Access to a virtual GP through Babylon
• Mental health and career coaching through Sanctus
• Free annual Headspace subscription

Additional perks 

• L&D budget to use on Learnerbly (our learning platform)
• Cycle to Work scheme
   

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