Principal Platform Engineer - Cloud-Native & Reliability

Fruition Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech scaleup based in City Of London is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on in a platform team. This role involves architecting multi-region infrastructure services and establishing best practices. The ideal candidate will have strong backend skills in languages like Go, Java, or .NET, as well as expertise in cloud-native architecture and Kubernetes. Join a company where technical excellence drives business success and make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Proven backend engineering skills in Go, Java, or .NET.
• Extensive experience with distributed systems architecture.
• Deep knowledge in cloud-native solutions (GCP/AWS).
• Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement highly available infrastructure services.
• Lead large-scale refactoring or reliability improvement initiatives.
• Establish best practices in incident response and observability.
• Drive adoption of modern cloud-native practices.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence engineering culture.

Skills

Backend engineering ability (Go, Java or .NET)

Designing and operating high scale distributed systems

Cloud native architecture (GCP/AWS)

Kubernetes and container orchestration

Mentoring and technical leadership

Job description

A leading fintech scaleup based in City Of London is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on in a platform team. This role involves architecting multi-region infrastructure services and establishing best practices. The ideal candidate will have strong backend skills in languages like Go, Java, or .NET, as well as expertise in cloud-native architecture and Kubernetes. Join a company where technical excellence drives business success and make a significant impact.