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Principal Software Engineer - £Excellent
Red BadgerLondon, England, United Kingdom
Posted July 16, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Red Badger offers digital product transformation consulting, delivering robust, loved digital products across industries.
Job Description
We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our digital product delivery function, shaping the technical direction of client engagements and delivering high-quality outcomes through strategic influence, hands-on support, and deep domain knowledge.
Requirements
- Experience in a consulting environment with client engagements
- Ability to influence senior client stakeholders and support teams with technology and process enablers to support continuous delivery and DevOps ways of working
- Experience with multiple programming languages, in web and/or mobile and multiple paradigms (e.g. declarative, functional, object oriented...)
- Experience with establishing good engineering practice focused on lean, cross-discipline, continuous delivery
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Azure, GCP, AWS, and understanding of progressive ways of managing infrastructure, such as infrastructure-as-code, cluster orchestration tools (e.g. Docker, K8s)
- Experience with setting up modern CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery and deployment and good understanding of the trade-offs (e.g. pipelines-as-code, monorepos, GitOps, branching and release strategies, etc.)
- Experience in designing system-level architecture and navigating trade-offs in web based systems (e.g. Microservices, REST APIs, CQRS)
- An understanding of information security including common attack vectors, awareness of relevant regulation and restrictions (e.g. PCI, GDPR...)
- Experience in design and testing strategies to enable gradual evolution of systems over time
- Good understanding of data storage approaches and tools and trade-offs involved (RBDMSs, key-value stores, column stores, log storage,...)
- Good understanding of applying cryptography in software development (e.g. TLS, PKI, HMAC, hashing algorithms, etc.)
- Good understanding of algorithms and data structures to solve distributed computing problems (e.g. content-based addressing, immutable data structures, CRDTs, consensus protocols, merkle DAGs, etc.
