Cloud-Native Backend Principal Engineer (UK Remote)

Turnitin, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Education reimbursement

Competitive PTO

Self-care days

National holidays

Charitable contribution match

Home office reimbursement

Employee assistance program

Retirement plan with match

Job summary

Turnitin, LLC is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for our Shared Services team. This remote UK role focuses on shaping core platform capabilities used across Turnitin products. You will own backend design, drive architectural decisions, and deliver scalable cloud-native solutions at scale.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product and architecture teams, and champion best practices in quality, performance, and security across distributed teams.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating large-scale backend systems.
• Strong expertise in Java and modern cloud technologies.
• Experience with AWS serverless services and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of shared backend services and platform capabilities.
• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy across multiple teams.
• Build scalable, highly available cloud-native solutions using Java and AWS technologies.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence across the org.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, and engineering teams to solve complex challenges.
• Champion best practices in software quality, performance, reliability, and security.

Skills

Java

Cloud-native

AWS

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Leadership

Mentoring

Frontend React

Tools

AWS Lambda

DynamoDB

API Gateway

SNS

SQS

EventBridge

Kubernetes

React

Job description

Turnitin, LLC is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for our Shared Services team. This remote UK role focuses on shaping core platform capabilities used across Turnitin products. You will own backend design, drive architectural decisions, and deliver scalable cloud-native solutions at scale.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product and architecture teams, and champion best practices in quality, performance, and security across distributed teams.