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Principal Software Engineer

London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-05 → 2026-09-26

Core

Principal Engineer leading technical excellence, AI adoption, and platform governance for a high-scale OTA platform serving thousands of requests per second.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (Front-end & Platform)

Builds

Scalable high-performance websites, AI-powered engineering tooling, and platform governance systems.

Domain

Online Travel Agency (OTA), Cloud-scale Front-end

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Front-end development, AI-powered feature development, AI tooling for software delivery, coaching engineers, building scalable high-performance websites, defining functional KPIs, designing cloud-scale systems

Preferred skills

Agile mindset, transforming software delivery processes, raising engineering profile through writing/speaking

Technologies

AI tooling, Cloud platforms, Front-end frameworks (implied by high-performance websites)

Responsibilities

Embed in mission teams to solve hard tech problems and coach engineers, Drive initiatives to apply AI to build better solutions and improve engineering process, Build tooling and processes to accelerate platform development, Design and oversee impactful systems that run reliably at cloud scale, Write and speak about tech work to raise engineering profile

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with mentorship

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