💫 Company | SaaS, Product, B2B2C, Enterprise

📏 Size | 2.5k globally, 300 in London

🧢 Role | Principal Software Engineer

🎯 Areas | backend infrastructure, distributed systems, data processing

✨ Tech | Go, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, event-driven architecture

📍 Based | London (Zone 1)

💻 Hybrid | 3 days a week in-office

💰 Offer | up to £150k base + bonus + RSUs (total comp = £235-295k)

Hi

Workonomics are partnering with a well-known, much-loved, multi-product SaaS company.

They're an established, profitable, maturing business, with millions of users globally.

Their infrastructure group ensure fast queries, high availability, and low-latency data processing across the platform.

💥 This group is looking for a Principal Engineer in London to help:

• scale their core data capabilities by 100x to open bigger enterprise opportunities
• ensure fast queries, high availability, and low-latency data processing across the platform
• drive best practices around observability, ensuring data integrity and service uptime

💥 They're seeking someone with:

• a track record designing and building complex, cloud-native SaaS platforms
• confidence developing large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems
• broad experience as a respected engineering leader, setting technical direction
• the ability to convey technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• a natural desire to collaborate cross-functionally and craft org-wide relationships

✅ This role will suit a hands-on Staff / Principal Engineer / Head of Engineering ✅

❌ This role will not suit a Senior looking to make a step up ❌

They really value people who can demonstrate a good degree of longevity within each employer, to show they've grown with the product long term, through different phases of its evolution.

If this sounds like you, please hit apply for more specifics about the company and role.