Job Description

Join us as a Principal Engineer

• This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work in a collaborative, agile, and forward-thinking team environment
• It’s your chance to make a real, tangible impact by using your software development expertise to deliver components that power our bank’s platforms, applications, and services
• As you grow your technical talents, you can also expect to develop your project and leadership skills that can open doors to a range of exciting career options
• We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be driving the development of software and tools that convert functional and non-functional requirements into well-designed, effective solutions that meet project and departmental objectives. You’ll play a leading role as well in planning, developing, and deploying high-performance, robust, and resilient systems for the bank.

Moreover, you’ll be developing your leadership skills as you manage the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams. At the same time, you’ll also build a strong leadership reputation in the software engineering community as you oversee the wider participation in internal initiatives, industry events, conferences, and other activities.

In addition, you’ll be:

• Making sure that the bank’s systems follow excellent architectural and engineering principles, and are consistently fit for purpose
• Monitoring technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality, scalability, and performance, and providing progress updates to stakeholders

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with a strong background in software engineering, software or database design, and architecture, along with significant experience developing software within a service-oriented architecture (SOA) or microservices paradigm. To succeed in this role, you’ll also need development experience in one or more programming languages, and an excellent understanding of implementing programming best practices, particularly in the areas of scalability, availability, and performance. Having a strong passion for continuous improvement and the tenacity to challenge and elevate the status quo is a valuable advantage to have as well.

In addition, you’ll need:

• At least 10 years of experience in designing and developing high-performance and high-availability applications using proven frameworks and technologies
• Designing and developing reusable libraries and application programming interfaces (APIs) for use across the bank
• Strong experience in driving technical strategies, and guiding and mentoring both teams and individual engineers
• Strong experience of cloud computing and building highly available systems on cloud architectures, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) preferred but other cloud platform experience also acceptable
• Strong experience of modern architectures such as microservices, event streaming, serverless, and multi-region systems, supported by solid knowledge of industry-recognised frameworks and tooling

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

22/05/2026