Hybrid Lead Front-End Principal Engineer

Hastings Direct; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4Cs culture

Car allowance

Annual bonus

Flexible/hybrid working

Private healthcare

Job summary

Hastings Direct in the UK seeks a Principal Engineer to lead frontend engineering within the CIO-driven Technology Engineering function. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic influence and people development in a fast-paced environment.

You’ll drive engineering standards, shape delivery, and mentor engineers while partnering with stakeholders to improve pipelines, CI/CD, and platform reuse for business impact.

Qualifications

• Strong transformational leadership skills with the ability to influence decisions and implement new processes aligned to business goals.
• Excellent mentoring and people development capability.
• Extensive experience in application and/or web development within an Agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop engineers through line management, mentoring, sponsorship and feedback.
• Tackle high-priority business challenges and resolve complex issues.
• Shape delivery pipeline and improve SDLC speed, reliability and consistency.
• Lead the Centre of Excellence, drive tooling improvements and best practices.
• Inspire high performance and link technical decisions to business impact.

Skills

Transformational leadership

Mentoring & people development

Agile web/app development

Tools

Jira

Octane

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub

Job description

Hastings Direct in the UK seeks a Principal Engineer to lead frontend engineering within the CIO-driven Technology Engineering function. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic influence and people development in a fast-paced environment.

You’ll drive engineering standards, shape delivery, and mentor engineers while partnering with stakeholders to improve pipelines, CI/CD, and platform reuse for business impact.