Principal Engineer (£160k + benefits)

Morson Group; England; Remote; GBP 144,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first working

Occasional client-site visits

Competitive salary up to £160k

Job summary

Morson Group is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead architecture and technical direction for client projects in a forward-looking AI-native software engineering environment. You will mentor teams, influence outcomes, and navigate stakeholder conversations at CTO and CEO levels.

The role is tech-agnostic, requiring hands-on work with Java, Node, .NET, Python and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). Remote-first with occasional onsite client visits is supported.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical direction on client projects.
• Strong architecture and solution design skills.
• Ability to communicate business impact of technical decisions to executives.
• Proven mentorship and team development capabilities.
• Comfort with AI-enabled software engineering and modern tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and technical direction on client projects.
• Raise the capability level of engineers on the team.
• Manage stakeholders up to CTO/CEO level and frame decisions commercially.
• Set up AI context engineering and select appropriate tools.
• Mentor and coach engineers to improve AI fluency.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud & IaC

Data pipelines & embeddings

AI-assisted engineering

Consulting & stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Java

Node

.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
• AI assisted engineering (Claude Code, agents, evals)
• 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.