Hybrid Principal Java Engineer & Tech Architect

Humand Talent; England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in Oxfordshire

Technical ownership

Professional development

Collaborative culture

Learning opportunities

Job summary

Humand Talent Solutions and its client are seeking a Principal Java Engineer to drive the evolution of its SaaS platforms. This role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, shaping architecture and engineering standards without direct people management.

You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Product, DevOps, Data and QA to deliver secure, scalable software while setting the bar for engineering excellence across teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering backend services and architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.
• Designing and developing high quality backend services and APIs.
• Influencing software architecture and long term technical direction.
• Improving platform scalability, reliability, security and performance.
• Mentoring engineers and supporting technical growth.
• Evaluating and adopting emerging technologies and AI assisted development tools where appropriate.

Skills

Spring Boot

AWS

Docker

REST APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

MySQL

Git

AI developer tooling

Job description

Humand Talent Solutions and its client are seeking a Principal Java Engineer to drive the evolution of its SaaS platforms. This role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, shaping architecture and engineering standards without direct people management.

You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Product, DevOps, Data and QA to deliver secure, scalable software while setting the bar for engineering excellence across teams.