Principal Software Engineer — Strategic Tech Leader
Hippo
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Job summary
Hippo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead strategic technical direction across multiple squads and drive enterprise-scale software delivery. You will shape architectural roadmaps, coach senior engineers, and partner with executives to align technical vision with business goals.
The role emphasises leadership, collaboration with data, design, and delivery teams, and delivery of secure, scalable digital services for diverse public and private sector clients.
Qualifications
- Lead strategic technical direction across multiple squads and projects.
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable, enterprise-grade software systems.
- Strong coaching skills for engineers and leads across teams.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic technical guidance across multiple squads as a high-level SME to ensure user-centred software follows best practice.
- Partner with senior stakeholders to explore, design and deliver innovative solutions to the most complex client problems.
- Oversee and optimise the design and management of complex software development and deployment pipelines, removing strategic bottlenecks.
- Direct the prioritisation of multi-team workloads, ensuring alignment with high-level operational priorities and complex work-streams.
- Act as a high-level communicator and presenter, representing Hippo’s technical vision to executive stakeholders.
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Job description
Hippo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead strategic technical direction across multiple squads and drive enterprise-scale software delivery. You will shape architectural roadmaps, coach senior engineers, and partner with executives to align technical vision with business goals.
The role emphasises leadership, collaboration with data, design, and delivery teams, and delivery of secure, scalable digital services for diverse public and private sector clients.
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