Principal Angular Software Engineer

Overview

At MHR, our employees are central to our success and play a key role in helping customers achieve sustainable high performance. With a team of over 900 professionals, we work to make things flow smoothly, whether it's for large organisations or individual employees. As businesses face rapid changes in the world of work, our team is here to help them adapt and thrive.

By focusing on the core needs of efficiency, productivity, growth, and impact, our employees use their expertise to deliver real solutions through our People and Finance platform. This system, which covers finance, HR, payroll, and learning, helps businesses run more smoothly and make better decisions in real time.

With over 40 years of experience behind us, MHR’s track record as a high-performance organisation is built on clear goals, a shared vision, and strong communication—all of which we pass on to our customers.

MHR is more than just a place to work; it’s a platform for empowerment. Joining us means bringing innovation, technology, and teamwork seamlessly removes obstacles, enhances your skills, and allow you to focus on what’s most important to you- work that matters.

With us, you’ll grow, find your flow, and make a lasting difference in your career, your team, and your impact.

Elevate your career by joining MHR, the pioneering SaaS company leading the charge in the UK. We re on the lookout for a visionary Principal Web Engineer to join the People First product team.

You’ll be part of our dynamic People First engineering team, where you ll work with the most cutting-edge technologies, collaborate with experts, and contribute to the rapid growth of our People First SaaS system.

As a Principal Engineer at MHR, you re not just writing code – you re architecting the future of software solutions. You ll drive excellence in every aspect, from user interface design to maintaining a high-quality code base, collaborating with like-minded Web Developers, shaping innovative solutions, and coaching the team to tackle complex business challenges head-on.

Working hybrid with 3 days a week in our Ruddington Head Office, your role will be to govern and contribute to the web codebase, driving technology, process and people change to ensure sustainable web delivery across the department.

• Collaborate seamlessly with delivery, platform, and architecture teams to align the functional roadmap with uncompromising quality of service.
• Lead the way by governing and actively contributing to the evolution of our web codebase through hands-on development.
• Transform ground-breaking ideas into reality, producing proof of concepts to de-risk delivery and elucidate intricate concepts.
• Elevate coding standards by automating processes, ensuring extensive test coverage for sustainable delivery.
• Provide essential guidance during planning, design reviews, and incident management to empower web engineers.
• Cultivate consensus among peers on cutting-edge technologies and best practices.
• Play a vital role in recruitment campaigns, hiring highly skilled engineers, and shaping the interview process to enhance efficiency.
• Develop, coach and mentor juniors on the team, supporting their professional growth and establishing personal development plans.

• Experience working on and building modern enterprise Angular applications.
• Good understanding of the following:
  Accessibility, Responsive and Adaptive design, working with UX/UI design documents
• Knowledge of the following:
  Web security, RESTful Web Services
• Experience with modern unit testing frameworks and methodologies.
• Strong understanding of RESTful architecture and API design principles.
• Deep knowledge of software engineering concepts such as design patterns, SOLID principles, polymorphism, and threading.
• Demonstrated ability to write clean, scalable, and maintainable code.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure services for cloud-based development.
• Experience with advising on common UX components within a design system using technologies such as Storybook.

Alongside the opportunity to work with an incredible…