Staff Engineer: Architecture Lead for Pricing Platform

Clearly Jobs Ltd.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 88,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Clearly Jobs Ltd. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in London to own the architecture of a greenfield pricing and quote engine. You will lead architecture decisions across multiple teams, shaping scalable, auditable pricing and underwriting logic.

You will design cloud-native solutions on Azure, with emphasis on CI/CD, testing, and observability, operating in a regulated environment. Strong autonomous leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience operating at Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or Lead Engineer level.
• Deep hands-on expertise with C# and .NET development.
• Strong experience building cloud-native solutions within Microsoft Azure.
• Proven background designing pricing/quote engines or other calculation-intensive platforms.
• Experience owning architecture across multiple teams and domains.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture for a greenfield pricing and quote engine project.
• Lead architectural decision-making across multiple systems and engineering teams.
• Design scalable, auditable, and reliable solutions for pricing, rating, and business rules processing.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks within complex calculation and decisioning systems.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices across the project.

Skills

C# / .NET

Azure

Pricing engines

Architecture leadership

CI/CD

Automated testing

Observability

Cloud architecture

Regulated industry experience

Leadership

Job description

Clearly Jobs Ltd. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in London to own the architecture of a greenfield pricing and quote engine. You will lead architecture decisions across multiple teams, shaping scalable, auditable pricing and underwriting logic.

You will design cloud-native solutions on Azure, with emphasis on CI/CD, testing, and observability, operating in a regulated environment. Strong autonomous leadership is essential.