CareerPlan

Principal Software Engineer

LeedsFull-time2025-12-31 → 2026-11-10

Core

Define and execute engineering strategy, drive architectural decisions, and lead the adoption of AI capabilities to support PEXA's property settlement platform.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (Technical Strategy & AI)

Builds

Property settlement platform, remortgage and buying/selling solutions for the UK and Australia

Domain

Fintech / PropTech / Real Estate

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed systems architecture, Technical strategy, AI/LLM integration, Cloud-native development, Security architecture, Mentorship, Stakeholder management, Performance engineering

Preferred skills

Financial services experience, DevSecOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, AI frameworks (LangGraph, Anthropic)

Technologies

Node.js, Python, Kotlin, AWS, Azure, Microservices, Containerisation

Responsibilities

Define engineering strategy across multiple teams, Drive architectural decisions for scalability and security, Lead evaluation and adoption of AI tools and agentic systems, Mentor engineers across all levels, Partner with Product and Business leaders to align technical strategy

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship