Job Description

Summary
The Principal Software Engineer role is a key role in the IRIS Engineering Organization and is one of the keystones in the delivery of World-Class Customer Products, Developer experience and the advancement of our technology in .NET and C#.
As a Principal Software Engineer, your world is being embedded or supporting the teams where the hardest work is happening at any given time, helping them deliver good quality software with predictable velocity, helping them break through when they're getting blocked , helping them get better over time , oiling the wheels of inter-team communication. Coaching, challenging and guiding the Engineering teams on great practices, processes and implementation.
As the Education Principal Engineer at IRIS you will :

• Drive the usage and best practices of AI Tools such as Devin, Replit, Co-Pilot, Cursor.
• Work with a high level of autonomy with regards to both focus areas and impact mechanisms
• Demonstrate and educate industry recognised engineering Cloud Platform SAAS "best in class" practices/frameworks E.g. Highly scalable, resilient, extendable service and application designs.
• Influence and drive the technical strategic direction of the platform & estate with engineering Leadership (VP's, Directors, Managers and Architects)
• Promote the Iris technical culture externally
• Nurture/Grow the internal technical culture of Iris
• Drive harmonization of best practices and processes across the organisation.
• Lead new ways of thinking and new engineering initiatives across the org without defined authority

Responsibilities
Technical Leadership

• Apply deep technical expertise to supporting teams in solving complex problems
• Work with architecture and Central teams to continually evolve the technical strategy
• Utilise understanding of cloud technologies to help teams engineer for high availability and performance of the platform
• Support project teams on the right pragmatic trade-offs between rapid delivery and long term supportable code
• Drive and support the adoption and driving of AI tooling and usage across the Product and Engineering Org.
• Enhance the delivery capability of any backend team.
• Take ownership of a problem space where appropriate.

Awareness and Impact

• Use passion and influence to drive impact at a wide scale
• Anticipates issues that any ideas provided could cause and pursue the win
• Be recognised as a "force multiplier" regardless of team or tech domain
• Deliver business value through sound technical decisions and actions
• Removes barriers for success through problem solving, collaboration and challenging the status quo
• Actively mentors' other engineers to reach their potential

Communication

• Present with confidence to various audiences with an understanding of how to tailor the communication to be most impactful
• Raise Iris's reputation in the technical community
• Seeks and provides constant constructive feedback

Key Relationships

• VP/Directors Engineers
• Functional Teams: Engineering, Quality Assurance, BA, Product Management and Support
• Product Engineering Delivery Teams

Experience

• Minimum 5 Years Experience developing and supporting engineers in their technical and career progression

• Demonstratable impact of engineering delivery

• Demonstratable creation and changes to applications using AI Tools
• Ability to work with a high level of autonomy

• Demonstrable knowledge of architectural concepts

• Understanding of cloud-native technologies and architecture
• Significant experience breaking down monoliths into microservices.

• Advanced experience (+5 Years) with engineering processes such as CI/CD, Continuous Delivery and Agile.

• Deep knowledge and understanding of core advanced topics Eg: async, http, memory management, performance optimisation, profiling and debugging applications

• Minimum 7 Years Experience working across multiple tech stacks

• Positive approach to problem solving

• Minimum 5 Years Experience of working at enterprise level scale/throughput and reliability
• Demonstrable experience of taking accountability and Technical leadership and ownership of a Domain/Large scale problem

Please note:
We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.
For UK candidates only:
Please note we are only able to accept candidates that are permanent UK residents or have proven permanent right to work in the UK.
INDHIGH
As one of the UK's largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.
IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.
Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child's school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.
Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers' businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.
It's vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.
That's why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time - so they can focus on productivity and growth.
IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.
They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.
We're delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Women.
These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.
IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.
This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.
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