Principal Engineer (Contract)

UK-based financial services company

2 days/week in office (Century City, Cape Town)

Lead a team engineers as part of a cross functional delivery team

Employ modern development practices to ship high-quality software

Compare among different technical and design approaches, choosing the right technology for the job

Ability to adapt to new languages and frameworks

Start or continue your journey as a line-manager

Coach & support peers

Provide support for digital products once they are live (depending on client needs) 

Web frontend and backend technologies (e.g. Typescript, React, Node.JS, Rust, Go, etc.)

Relational and non-relational databases (e.g. ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.)

System architecture approaches (e.g. microservices, event sourcing, serverless, CQRS…)

Virtualisation and orchestration tools (e.g. VMs, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Pulimi)

CI/CD pipelines (e.g Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions, etc.)

Test automation following Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, API testing, and end-to-end testing

Understanding design and technical trade-offs, optimising for lean product development and end-user value

Designing an agile release engineering strategy that delivers value incrementally and continuously

Supporting a highly-available live production system, responding to alerts, diagnosing problems using logs and observability tooling, triaging and resolving incidents

Working with lean and agile practices (e.g. Kanban, Scrum, etc.)

Collaborating in cross-functional teams

Coaching and line managing software engineers