Principal Software Engineer

The digital backbone of the renewable energy world

Our team combines deep domain knowledge of the renewable energy industry, with cutting-edge software engineering and operational delivery specialists with office spaces in Cambridge and London. We value diversity of perspectives and experience - with our team member's backgrounds already representing North America, Continental Europe, and the UK. Working with us means using your passion for climate tech to innovate, continuously adapt, and be empowered to do your job proactively.

We hire people who want to make a real impact, while supporting the collaborative and respective team we have built here.

Come help us build a green energy world powered by technology!!

UK Cambridge/ Hybrid/ Remote

You will take a leading role in the design, delivery, and support of cutting-edge green energy software as part of a product-led, continuous delivery lifecycle. Working with key stakeholders inside and outside the company, you will help shape the design and architecture of this rapidly evolving software product and take a leading role in implementing this design as part of day-to-day development efforts.

You will also be a leading voice in our continuous improvement as a software delivery function – using your experience to guide how our engineering policies and practices evolve. This is a position that requires passion, enthusiasm and a genuine desire for growth. This is a multi-functional team where we work with a breadth of stakeholders across our business and our customers, and no two days are the same.

The following is required in this role:

• As a senior member of the Engineering team, you will take a leading role in the delivery of scalable, reliable software at pace by:
  • Building new software features and services in collaboration with the wider Engineering team, typically in pair- or mob-programming sessions.
  • Working with Product stakeholders to translate product requirements into technical designs.
  • Acting as a leading voice in the refinement of large areas of development focus into deliverable iterations.
  • Leading prototyping and feasibility studies for new capabilities, including being a major voice for when to build/buy/partner.
  • Assisting in the training and upskilling of other staff on your areas of expertise, such as through code reviews, pair programming, or direct coaching.
  • Participating in regular product demo and feedback sessions with external stakeholders.
  • Being a leading voice in internal continuous improvement discussions such as retrospectives.
  • Acting as a technical subject matter expert and point of contact for both internal and external stakeholders.
  • Writing appropriate test automation code to ensure reliability of Spine’s services.
  • Supporting the services you develop as part of team-wide out-of-hours efforts.
• As a member of the wider Spine team, you will also act more broadly to help achieve our collective success:
  • Supporting high-level corporate goals and objectives outside of Engineeringo Contributing proactively where your skills, experience, and enthusiasm allow you to make an impact.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with the following:

• Proven experience building and operating java-based applications in an enterprise environment (Spring boot or Micronaut preferred), ideally as microservices within a SaaS platform.
• Good working understanding of software architecture and design patterns, ideally within a Domain Driven Design (DDD) context.
• Opinionated on good practices around resilience, scalability, and maintainability of large-scale software systems.
• Experience working with container management solutions (Kubernetes, ECS, etc), ideally within a managed cloud platform (EKS, GKE, etc).
• Good understanding of Dev Ops practices and Continuous Delivery (CD).
• Confident communicator with internal and external stakeholders.
• At your best working in a small, technically challenging, and cross-functional development teams.
• Committed to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality.
• Excited to be part of the early days of a new tech startup, with all the uncertainty and opportunity that entails.

In addition, one or more of the following would be great to have:

• Experience with frontend UI design and development (MUI / React preferred).
• Familiarity with Data Engineering patterns, such Data Products and Data Pipelines.
• Experience with platform-as-a-product delivery or platform engineering.
• Familiarity with Machine Learning Engineering tools and frameworks.
• Experience with microservice networking and service meshes (such as Istio).
• Well-informed on security considerations in a cloud native environment, with prior experience with related tooling (e.g. OPA, IRSA).

Don’t worry if you don’t check every box listed here – we’re looking for talented and enthusiastic people to complement our existing team and would be excited to find out what other experience you bring to the table.