Hybrid Principal Software Engineer

at Lead Forensics

• Job title: Principal Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Manchester, United Kingdom

About the role

• Staff level full stack Software Engineer with Lead Forensics developing customer facing products using modern tech stack and Agile methodologies. Seeking to accelerate quality software production using Agentic AI in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Working with stakeholders on initial solution design, scoping and system design.
• Spiking areas of uncertainty in designs and building POCs as required.
• Work with our Product Teams to help break down work into deliverable Epics and Stories.
• Turning user stories into code running in production as a high performing individual contributor lead developer and embedded architect in an Agentic AI environment.
• Ensuring the quality, maintainability and operability of code.
• Supporting the product that the team has built as it runs in production and resolving issues.
• Responsible for the design, architecture and implementation decisions for the product.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience developing with TypeScript
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills, including competencies to work directly with customers
• Experience developing with clean code, SOLID principals and design patterns
• Experience across all areas of full stack development, ideally developing large scale SaaS platforms
• Experience of working in a mature CI/CD environment, continuously deploying stories every day, following the DevSecOps methodology
• A strong general aptitude for programming and problem solving
• A forward-thinking approach to accelerating production quality software development using AI (professional or personal)
• Experience with automated testing and quality assurance
• An understanding of how to build systems that perform well at scale
• Enthusiasm for building secure systems and implementing security best practices
• Enthusiasm for driving high standards in software development and working with like-minded people towards achieving ever higher levels of efficiency and performance.
• A technical/computer science degree or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits

• An entrepreneurial environment built on ownership, accountability, autonomy and trust
• Employment with a fast-growing UK SaaS company; initially remote working.
• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Be part of a fantastic company culture; we all display our Company DNA’s, foster a “One Team” and ‘Growth’ mentality.
• Give back to the wider community with volunteer days, fundraisers and charity.