Principal Engineer (£160k + benefits)

Morson Edge (Technology); England; Remote; GBP 144,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Morson Edge (Technology) is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead architecture and technical direction on client projects. You will mentor teams, drive AI fluency, and align technical decisions with business outcomes in a remote-first consultancy.

You’ll interact with CTO/CEO level stakeholders, set the tone for delivery, and shape the use of AI and context engineering across engagements with major enterprises and scale-ups.

Qualifications

• Senior/lead level experience in complex software projects.
• Technical leadership on client engagements with architectural responsibility.
• Comfort translating technical tradeoffs into business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Set architecture and technical direction across client projects.
• Mentor engineers to raise AI fluency and quality of work.
• Collaborate with CTO/CEO level stakeholders, framing decisions in business terms.
• Drive AI-centric delivery, context engineering and tool selection.
• Promote pragmatic, delivery-focused culture and iterative delivery.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

IaC

Data pipelines

Vector stores

Embeddings

Consulting

Stakeholder management

Java

Node.js

.NET

Python

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Great opportunity for a Principal Engineer to join a software consultancy at the forefront of AI-native software engineering.

The company employs around 500 people, works with a mix of large enterprises and fast-growing scale-ups, and their engineers are already using agents to deliver quality work for clients at a pace that wasn’t possible until now.

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be the go-to technical expert on client projects and will be responsible for architecture, technical direction and raising the level of the engineers around you.

You’ll be dealing with stakeholders up to CTO and CEO level, so you’ll need the commercial awareness to frame technical decisions in business terms and the confidence to call out when a problem isn’t a technical one.

AI is a core part of the role rather than a side skill - you’ll set AI up to succeed and treat context engineering as a craft (the right files, specs, examples and constraints), pick the right tools for the job and mentor the team in AI fluency.

The culture is pragmatic and delivery focused; they value outcomes over output, build the smallest thing that works and then iterate.

Skills:

• Distributed systems
• Cloud (cost and security aware) and IaC
• Data pipelines, vector stores and embeddings
• Consulting and stakeholder management

You should be tech agnostic and expect to work with a variety of modern tech including Java, Node, .NET, Python, AWS, Azure, GCP etc.

The money is good too – up to £160k plus benefits including remote first working with occasional time onsite with clients to build relationships in person.