Job Description
Within Gateway Services, we are building our next generation omni-commerce Gateway. We are currently hiring a Principle/Distinguished Engineer to support teams within this domain. In this role you will lead highly technical and strategic engineering initiatives on mission-critical platforms across our team, enabling every engineer to their best work.
Your role will be tasked with solving the most complex, challenging technical problems across this team to meet our demanding needs.
You will play an influential role in partnership with engineering leadership group and other cross-divisional VPs of Engineering, owning technical vision and direction as well as Developer Experience.
In order to excel in this role you will possess:
Great communication skills.
Ability to influence across teams and with senior stakeholders.
Ability to drive vision and strategy for our overall architecture to support scale, performance, resiliency and reliability of our platform.
Have created a reference architecture for a group of engineers to learn from, not just diagrams but code.
Come from a technical background, extremely proficient in microservices architectures, architecture patterns, having created architectures that allow services to be shipped to production multiple times a day as independently releasable microservices.
Be a keen coder and have the ability to roll up your sleeves and ship high quality production code for critical services.
Be able to quickly identify problems with our current state solutions and come to solutions quickly to enable critical delivery to move.
An evangelist who can always keep an eye on the future, and in doing so help keep our teams up to speed on the latest and greatest happenings within technology.
Strong appreciation of Event Storming and DDD having applied these mythologies in shaping microservices architectures.
Experience in creating / engineering Cloud Native Architectures.
Additional Experience (nice to have).
Some experience with Model Context Protocol / AI having had some experience in how this can shape the future of software engineering.
Experience in Java within low latency environments.
Experience of chaos engineering and patterns that ensure high uptime and resiliency.
Your role will be tasked with solving the most complex, challenging technical problems across this team to meet our demanding needs.
You will play an influential role in partnership with engineering leadership group and other cross-divisional VPs of Engineering, owning technical vision and direction as well as Developer Experience.
In order to excel in this role you will possess:
Great communication skills.
Ability to influence across teams and with senior stakeholders.
Ability to drive vision and strategy for our overall architecture to support scale, performance, resiliency and reliability of our platform.
Have created a reference architecture for a group of engineers to learn from, not just diagrams but code.
Come from a technical background, extremely proficient in microservices architectures, architecture patterns, having created architectures that allow services to be shipped to production multiple times a day as independently releasable microservices.
Be a keen coder and have the ability to roll up your sleeves and ship high quality production code for critical services.
Be able to quickly identify problems with our current state solutions and come to solutions quickly to enable critical delivery to move.
An evangelist who can always keep an eye on the future, and in doing so help keep our teams up to speed on the latest and greatest happenings within technology.
Strong appreciation of Event Storming and DDD having applied these mythologies in shaping microservices architectures.
Experience in creating / engineering Cloud Native Architectures.
Additional Experience (nice to have).
Some experience with Model Context Protocol / AI having had some experience in how this can shape the future of software engineering.
Experience in Java within low latency environments.
Experience of chaos engineering and patterns that ensure high uptime and resiliency.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Principal Engineer Gateway Services (Global) position is now open for candidates interested in the IT Engineer & Developer Jobs sector. This role in London offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in IT Engineer & Developer Jobs is a plus.
