Principal Software Engineer (£100k + benefits)

Manchester Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing FinTech company in Manchester is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead engineering efforts and drive technical excellence. Join a vibrant culture with a focus on collaboration, where you will work cross-functionally to design cloud-native systems and mentor emerging talent.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Bonus

Pension

Share scheme

Holiday allowance

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on skills in modern programming languages and cloud tools.
• Experience leading teams or mentoring junior engineers.
• Deep understanding of DevOps practices and system design.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building scalable, distributed systems.
• Leading technical strategies across product teams.
• Mentoring and coaching engineering talent.

Skills

C#

.NET 9

Angular

NextJS

AWS

CI/CD

Containerisation

Docker

Kubernetes

Microservices

Job description

Principal Software Engineer (£100k + benefits)

Great opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer with experience of .NET and AWS to join a fast-growing FinTech company in Manchester that have an award-winning culture built on collaboration.

You’d join a large engineering department and would work with cross functional teams responsible for building high-performance, cloud-native systems in a DevOps environment.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll lead by example, writing production-grade code while shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, and driving technical excellence across teams.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Designing and building scalable, distributed systems (60% hands-on coding)
• Leading technical strategy across multiple product teams
• Coaching and mentoring Staff & Senior Software Engineers
• Owning non-functional requirements: scalability, security, performance
• Driving DevOps, CI/CD, and containerisation best practices
• Exploring and implementing AI-powered dev tools

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong hands-on skills in C#, .NET 9, Angular, NextJS and AWS
• Deep understanding of CI/CD, automation and modern DevOps practices
• Experience with Docker & Kubernetes for containerisation and cloud deployment
• Experience leading engineering teams or mentoring senior talent
• Strong system design skills including microservices, and cloud-native architecture

The money is good too – up to £100k plus benefits including hybrid working, bonus, pension, share scheme and holiday allowance.

If you're interested in this opportunity and would like to know more, please apply through this advert and I will contact you ASAP.