Principal Engineer (£160k + benefits)

Morson Edge; Greater Manchester; Remote; GBP 96,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Occasional on-site visits

Job summary

Morson Edge is hiring a Principal Engineer for a software consultancy at the forefront of AI-native software engineering. You will lead architecture and technical direction on client projects, mentor teams, and ensure AI fluency across engagements.

Stakeholders up to CTO/CEO will rely on you to frame decisions in business terms. The role emphasizes AI as a core capability, working with diverse tech (Java, Node, .NET, Python, AWS/Azure/GCP) and a remote-first culture with occasional time onsite

Qualifications

• Experience leading AI-native software projects.
• Strong architectural skills and ability to influence decisions.
• Commercial awareness to frame technical choices in business terms.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the go-to technical expert on client projects.
• Define architecture and technical direction for engagements.
• Mentor engineers and raise the overall AI fluency.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud & IaC

Data pipelines

AI engineering

Stakeholder mgmt

Tech stack: Java/Node/.NET/Python

Tools

Claude Code

Agents

Eval frameworks

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.