Principal Engineer
Pepperstone2 months ago
Budapest, HungaryStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and execute engineering roadmaps that improve quality, efficiency, and developer experience across the organisation.
- Lead high-impact technical initiatives that improve delivery pace, predictability, and operational efficiency.
- Influence teams’ technical decisions and drive incremental improvements aligned with business objectives.
- Collaborate with Architecture, Portfolio, Engineering Managers, and delivery teams on technical direction and target architecture states.
- Champion Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, including automated testing, build and deployment pipelines, and observability.
- Contribute to software design and development through code reviews and pairing.
- Mentor engineers and support capability uplift and engineering culture improvements.
- Support hiring processes and performance development within the engineering organisation.
- Facilitate technical discussions, team ceremonies, and estimation activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, another related certification, or equivalent on-the-job experience.
- Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages, such as TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, or Java, with the ability to work across multiple languages and ecosystems.
- Typically 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leadership of projects, technical initiatives, or engineering practices.
- Ability to influence technical direction and drive outcomes without formal authority.
- Deep knowledge of software engineering principles, system design, design patterns, testing strategies, and modern development practices.
- Experience designing and evolving architectures for distributed systems and cloud-native applications, with AWS preferred.
- Strong understanding of API design and communication patterns including REST, GraphQL, and gRPC, plus JSON and protobuf data formats.
- Extensive experience with Continuous Delivery, automated testing, build and deployment pipelines, monitoring, and alerting.
- Experience with platform-level projects serving other engineers or teams and with designing, building, and enforcing team and service interfaces and boundaries.
- Effective communication with internal and external stakeholders and experience working with remote teams across global locations and time zones.
- Strong organisational and time-management skills, self-motivation, proactivity, and an interest in current software engineering technologies and practices.
Benefits
- Competitive salary structure and company bonus scheme.
- Collaborative and friendly culture.
- Flexible hybrid working.
- Option to work remotely from anywhere for up to four weeks per year.
- Ongoing personal development and learning opportunities.
- Three paid volunteering days per year and a Workplace Giving Program.
- Recognition and reward programs for outstanding performance.
- Frequent events and celebrations.
- Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing initiatives.
- Office located near Astoria at KLUSTER Coworking in Budapest.
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