Hands-On Principal Engineer: SaaS Platform & Frontend

Specsavers; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Specsavers is seeking a Principal Engineer to shape the future of our US digital platform. This hands-on engineering leader will write production code, review architecture, and drive technical standards across frontend, backend, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Development, and Architecture leaders to turn ambitious ideas into customer‑facing experiences, while supporting a UK engineering team from a technical leadership perspective.

Qualifications

• Experience as Principal Engineer or senior technical leader in a high growth tech business.
• Strong track record building and scaling modern SaaS products.
• Deep engineering expertise across modern web technologies and platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction, architecture, and engineering standards while delivering production code.
• Review code, troubleshoot production issues, and ship features with cross functional teams.

Skills

Frontend engineering

Backend services

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Specsavers is seeking a Principal Engineer to shape the future of our US digital platform. This hands-on engineering leader will write production code, review architecture, and drive technical standards across frontend, backend, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Development, and Architecture leaders to turn ambitious ideas into customer‑facing experiences, while supporting a UK engineering team from a technical leadership perspective.