Principal Software Engineer

As a Principal Engineer in the Boost team, you'll be part of a group of principal engineers who champion technical excellence. The team acts as an enabling function, not a delivery arm. You will embed in other teams to help them improve and work faster. You will be hands-on, leading by example, and coaching others to drive technical excellence and innovation across the company. Your success will be measured by how you help others succeed.

Responsibilities

• Own the team's functional KPIs, defining the measurable outcomes that show our impact.
• Help mission teams deliver faster, safer solutions by solving complex problems and training others to do the same.
• Champion AI adoption, applying it to both engineering processes and solutions.
• Coach our engineers, guiding their growth.
• Build tools to make the Boost team more effective and improve platform governance.
• Embed in mission teams to solve hard tech problems, coaching engineers hands-on to instill our core engineering principles.
• Drive initiatives to apply AI to build better solutions and improve our engineering process.
• Build tooling and processes to accelerate and enable our platform development.
• Design and oversee impactful systems that run reliably at cloud scale.
• Write and speak about our tech work to raise our engineering profile.

Your skillset

• Experience with AI-powered feature development and leveraging AI tooling for software delivery, with enthusiasm for transforming how we build and deliver software.
• Demonstrable history of working hands-on with engineering teams to solve complex technical challenges, building team capabilities and promoting sustainable practices.
• Seasoned facilitator who excels at pairing with engineers, leading technical discussions, and helping teams navigate architectural decisions through practical, hands-on collaboration.
• Ability to identify and scale successful technical patterns while connecting technical excellence to measurable business outcomes.
• A track record of building and optimising scalable, high-performance websites.
• Strong front-end skills.
• Ability to work across various tech systems within the platform and quickly learn new technologies.
• Valuing an agile mindset and a proven track record of delivery with teams.