Principal Software Developer

ECM Selection (Holdings) Limited; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Enhanced pension

Hybrid work

Job summary

ECM Selection (Holdings) Limited seeks a principal software developer to guide and contribute to modern C# cloud software focused on sustainability. Cambridge-based with hybrid working, offering a competitive salary and top benefits.

You will influence architecture, collaborate with stakeholders and apply modern standards to enhance platform capabilities and efficiency in a data-oriented pipeline.

Qualifications

• Designing and delivering complex, enterprise and/or cloud solutions.
• Strong academic record with a technical degree and top grades (A-levels or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture decisions and shape platform capabilities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive design, standards and best practices.
• Contribute to cloud-native patterns, security considerations and API design.

Skills

C# & .NET

Cloud architecture

REST API design

AWS / Azure

Kubernetes

OAuth security

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Principal-level engineering of modern C# cloud software enhancing sustainability

Cambridge, hybrid working; to £80k+ DoE with top benefits

This role will suit a principal software developer with expertise guiding and contributing directly to cloud software development with AWS or Azure. The data-oriented platform and pipeline at hand is central to a suite of applications with a positive impact on global sustainability, and this is a prominent role with responsibility and reward.

You will have a principal engineer's ability to address the finer points of architecture, consider the ramifications of far-reaching decisions, collaborate with stakeholders, and cultivate and apply the right elements of modern good practice and standards. Through such actions and direct contributions you will play a key part in shaping platform capabilities and effectiveness.

You will also bring:

• Prior experience designing and successfully delivering complex, high-quality enterprise and/or cloud solutions, from technical domains such the scientific, engineering and/or industrial sectors.
• Significant skills with C# and modern .NET, creating elegant designs, tracking the evolution of the language and selecting the best elements to incorporate.
• Experience with AWS or Azure as a target platform, containers, and potentially cloud native approaches, Kubernetes etc. Ideally (not necessarily) this may include specific knowledge of vendor offerings and appropriate architectures and patterns for those offerings.
• A deep understanding of cloud-compatible architectures (such as microservices and SoA), RESTful API design considerations, and ideally, a good awareness of security and authentication considerations (OAuth is relevant).
• A strong academic track record including a good technical degree and top A-level grades or equivalent.

The company offers a multi-cultural environment, a focus on sustainability, and a top package including a highly competitive salary, enhanced pension and holiday, hybrid working several days per week, and a host of career and skills development options in addition to tailored package elements.

Keywords: Principal engineer, principal software developer, C#, .NET, cloud, Azure, AWS, cloud native, containers, microservice, service-oriented, REST, API, intelligence, security, authentication, OAuth, sustainability, Cambridge, hybrid.