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Principal FDE - Software Engineer

United Kingdom, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-25

Core

Owns system architecture design, technical leadership, and engineering excellence for deeply complex, ambiguous product solutions.

Role type

Principal FDE - Software Engineer (System Architecture & Technical Leadership)

Builds

Entire products/solutions with complex system architectures

Domain

Software Engineering / System Architecture

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

System architecture design, technical leadership, coding best practices, debugging, project planning, experimentation design, deployment optimization, reliability engineering, data analytics, tooling development

Preferred skills

Mentoring less experienced engineers, cross-team coordination, automation strategy, security and compliance expertise

Technologies

(Not explicitly listed)

Responsibilities

Lead design discussions and create architecture proposals; mentor team members on coding and testing best practices; optimize, debug, and refactor code; lead project planning and release execution; manage on-call reliability and incident response; analyze complex data to refine products; build developer tools and automation frameworks.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic oversight

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