Principal/Staff Software Engineer

Principal/Staff Engineer

We are helping an edu-tech company who are looking to scale up the development team with a Principal or Staff Engineer.  This is a hands-on development role which also includes AI strategy, code reviews, and understanding business strategy.

About you:

• Hands-on enough to contribute directly in C# / Backbone /Ms SQL.
• Able to reduce key-person dependency across the platform.
• Pragmatic about AI-enabled engineering workflows.
• Good communicator with enough gravitas to influence without creating friction.
• You will be a senior technical operator. Someone who is hands-on enough to materially strengthen delivery resilience, while also bringing enough maturity to help us improve how we use AI within the team.

About the role:

• This is a hybrid position but there will be times when you need to be in the office more than at home, depending on deadlines.
• You will be an individual contributor, sitting in on sprints and understand how to resolve poor performing queries
• We are looking for a full stack engineer who cares about the UX and UI.
• The ideal Principal Engineer will have a genuine interest in the business, rather than have a ‘code and go home’ mentality.
• The role involves working collaboratively with the development team and also getting hands-on with the data's underlying quality, clean data errors, build trust in the outputs, tighten operational discipline, and strengthen inputs to stop data quality issues reappearing – not just being focused on feature delivery.

About the Company:

• As a small but growing team, the day to day can be quite varied; this role is ideal for someone who likes to work on a range of responsibilities rather than being pigeon-holed.
• They are a tech for good and deliver education to students in under-privileged areas in Africa.
• Having worked with this company for the last 6 years, I have found that they have a really nurturing culture with approachable and down-to-earth senior leadership.

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