Principal Engineer
CDP Global7 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Audit and document existing platform architecture and integrations across services and systems.
- Produce architecture diagrams and documentation for delivery and long-term technical decisions.
- Identify integration bottlenecks, inconsistencies, and technical debt and propose concrete improvements.
- Align tech leads and squads on shared integration principles and guidelines.
- Define a target integration model, including service boundaries and interaction patterns.
- Create a prioritized roadmap with clear milestones and support squads in delivering it.
- Provide design collaboration, code and approach reviews, and technical decision-making to unblock delivery.
- Contribute to an inclusive, collaborative, and engaged engineering team.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience designing and improving integration architecture across multiple services.
- Strong engineering background in modern web stacks with deep practical experience in Node.js, React, and Nest.js.
- Working knowledge of Azure-based systems.
- Experience setting standards and aligning multiple teams on shared technical approaches.
- Ability to reverse-engineer unclear systems, improve them incrementally, and explain trade-offs clearly.
- Strong written communication and documentation skills.
- Practical, collaborative working style with a focus on shipping improvements and raising engineering quality.
Benefits
- £78,969–£98,711 per year base salary.
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays.
- Generous non-contributory pension provision, Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, and training and development.
- Flexible working opportunities and other benefits.
- Permanent role based at CDP’s London office, with two days per week in the office.
- Applicants must live within a commutable distance of the London office and be eligible to work legally in the UK.
About CDP Global
CDP is a London-based nonprofit, founded in 2000, that runs a global environmental disclosure platform for companies, cities, states and regions. It collects and scores climate, water and deforestation data and licenses datasets used by financial institutions—representing over a quarter of global institutional assets—to inform investment and lending. More than 20,000 companies and about 1,000 public authorities disclose through CDP, funded by grants, partnerships and paid access to data and services.