Principal Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Role Overview:

This role will set the standards and direction of Engineers with Engineering Excellence in mind. They will demonstrate the benefits of the latest approaches to Full-Stack development and delivery through working as a team member. They should be the authority for decisions relating to standards and engineering best practices within their discipline in their team.

The Principal Engineer will be passionate about software development and keen to use their technical and mentoring skills to help their development team to be successful. They should be comfortable working in agile teams, foster transparent communication, have a commitment to quality, and a focus on getting things done. This role will primarily be hands-on with some management responsibility.

Role Responsibilities:

Development, Architecture, SDLC and Delivery

• Act as the primary technical leader and developer on the Fusion team, demonstrating strong technical competencies and acting as a dependable and high value contributor within the team such that other team members know what they should aspire to

• Be an expert in modern Full-Stack Engineering using React/Typescript/JavaScript and OO design principals.

• Provide technical oversight of the analysis and design for assigned projects

• Design, develop, test and oversee production software solutions, including the development of highly complex systems, and modifications to existing systems

• Be able to communicate the architecture and principles behind a system to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Support the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling (JIRA) to capture and track deliveries, identify issues and help with roadmap and iteration planning and prioritisation

• Ensure the team engages in a well-defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needs

• Support the team through help with defining scope and guiding estimation of work to be done by leveraging previous experience

• Be custodians for target state architecture and best practice within your respective development team and across the Fusion estate

• Identify opportunities to evolve systems towards target state architecture and direct refactoring and prioritisation to positively influence deliveries

Communication and Leadership

• Work alongside Team Leaders, to provide technical leadership and direction for the development team

• Participate in retrospectives and seek opportunities to drive best practice

• Lead the software team to deliver high quality and innovative software solutions