Principal Engineer
Pepperstone3 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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About Pepperstone
Pepperstone is a Melbourne‑headquartered, privately held online broker for forex and CFDs serving retail and professional traders worldwide. Founded in 2010 and owned by CPE Capital, it offers trading in FX, indices, commodities, cryptocurrencies and more via MetaTrader and cTrader platforms, with regulation across major jurisdictions (e.g., ASIC and FCA). Revenue comes from spreads, commissions, and financing on leveraged products.