At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead technical excellence and drive innovation in product development.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking tech company focused on food solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with a focus on mentorship and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping the future of food technology.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in software engineering and strong leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical excellence from design to operations and launch of core product features
- Drive technical direction and influence our overall strategy
- Champion Communities of Practice
- Lead by example via contributions to our engineering ecosystem
- Pioneer and promote methodologies like clean code and clean architecture
- Advocate for engineering productivity, delivery quality and operational excellence
- Drive DevOps practices to automate the Product development life cycle
- Partner with both Engineering, Technology and Product leadership
- Develop the best and mentor other senior engineering roles
- Promote effective innovation across all of engineering
- Advocate and strategize for continuous industrialisation and product-minded tech capabilities
- Inspire ideas to foster purpose and mastery to engineering teams
- Amplify engineering teams by efficiently unblocking them
- Raise the profile of MS Tech through public content
- Support recruitment, onboarding and internal and external brand outreach activities
Requirements
- Significant track record of strategic and innovative thinking, as well as execution and implementation
- Specialist in clean code and implementation of design patterns for common problems
- Depth of knowledge in Information Security
- Confident driving system design conversations
- Able to analyse current processes
- Experience of using a variety of methods of prototyping
- Strong ability to influence industry-based models
- Strong understanding of quality assurance
- Ability to lead senior engineers
- Authoritative skills at cloud computing
- Experience with implementation of Observability and Reliability
- Good experience with Performance Engineering
- Expertise in reliability testing
- Able to influence people at senior levels
We think you need these skills to ace Principal Software Engineer – Food
Technical Excellence
Clean Code
Design Patterns
Information Security
System Design
Prototyping Methods
Quality Assurance
