Principal Engineer overseeing system design and platform evolution at Picnic. Focus on scalable and cost-efficient infrastructure amidst growing complexity.
Responsibilities
Act as architectural steward of the platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency as complexity increases
Design and evolve backend systems, data pipelines, real-time services, and APIs to support both internal capabilities and external customers
Introduce clear engineering principles and patterns to reduce duplication and architectural drift across workstreams
Strengthen AWS architecture and cloud cost efficiency through thoughtful service design, right-sizing, and operational discipline
Drive best practices around system design, observability, automation, CI/CD, and production operations
Embed AI-native development workflows across the team - using LLMs and agents effectively for code generation, testing, refactoring, documentation, and experimentation
Stay close to the systems and codebase, contributing directly to critical components and unblocking complex technical challenges
Act as a senior technical escalation point, supporting engineers in making strong system-level decisions
Requirements
Proven hands-on experience delivering and operating backend or distributed systems in a startup or scale-up environment
Deeply experienced in cloud architecture, particularly within AWS
Worked across product engineering, infrastructure, and data systems
Confident designing systems that balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability
Comfortable integrating AI tools and agent workflows into engineering practice
Strong judgement around trade-offs, technical debt, and operational risk
Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience in advertising technology is a bonus!
Benefits
Flexible, hybrid working setup (with regular time in the office throughout the week so you will live in or around London)
33 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays), plus additional Christmas shutdown
Private Medical Insurance through Vitality
Picnic pension contribution
Inclusive parental leave policy
A great co-working space, regular socials and offsites, Picnic Thursdays, Summer Fridays, and Work-from-Roam opportunities
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