Job Description

Job Title Principal Software Engineer
Location Asda House
Employment Type Full time
Contract Type Permanent
Hours per Week 37.5
Salary
Competitive Salary plus benefits
Category Software Engineering
Closing Date 22 June 2025
Engineering Excellence - Principal Software Engineer
"Everything about Asda"
We are a values-led organisation. As such we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.
Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.
We conduct 300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.
"Everything you'll love"
Starting 26 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays - Making sure you take time for yourself and switch off
4 weekly pay - which means you get an extra payday a year
Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions - Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us
Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year - really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of 700 a year
Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business. (Link to grad scheme on Asda page)
Free city centre parking - you can also use it outside working hours
Plus, much more!
What You'll Love
We're looking for a DevSecOps focussed Principal Software Engineer to be part of our Engineering Excellence team.
Our Mission: Increase efficiency and agility across engineering teams enabling them to mobilise quickly and deliver quality, secure, right first-time features for our customers at reduced costs.
Enable operations teams to pro-actively monitor and quickly report across critical systems.
A Principal Software Engineer reports into the Head of Engineering and drives the delivery of our mission through a combination of design, build & implementation activity together with working alongside multiple engineering teams across the department, supporting them to adopt new ways of working.
This role will be key in driving the adoption of modern architecture and trends such as DevSecOps and Cloud Native technology platforms. The role will involve strong collaboration with others - be it learning from examples of existing great engineering work, collaborating with others to create it or mentoring engineers to use it.
Your Role
Provide technical expertise, ship brilliantly and operate with excellence
Understand the key department issues and priorities and leading by example, work with the team to ensure the design and delivery of robust solutions to address them
Lead the engineers to build and maintain high quality and reliable blueprints/templates which can be rolled out as standard to wider Engineering teams
Direct, coach and inspire technology standards and best practice within the engineering teams e.g. SOLID development principles, shift-left of testing and continuous integration/delivery
Help shape the future use of Jira & Confluence throughout the Technology department, collaborating with users to understand their needs and working with the Engineering Manager to design the target state
Own the engineering excellence of our teams e.g. behaviours, operations and technical quality
Work with the wider technology function to shape the technical strategy, adopting North Star principles
Support other engineers to produce clean, quality code through code reviews and mentoring
Drive DevSecOps best practices to automate the product development life cycle
What You'll Need
Highly creative, pro-active, enthusiastic, conscientious, detail-oriented self-starter
Highly resilient, employing a relentless can-do attitude in the face of adversity
Excellent collaboration and problem-solving skills
Exceptional presentation, inter-personal, written and communication skills
Come from a strong engineering / development background and may have moved into a tech lead/ hands-on solution architect type role
Familiar with Agile methodologies (XP, Kanban, Scrum, SAFe) and proven experience embedding agile ways of working
Experience with modern architecture patterns e.g. micro-services, micro-frontend, event-based architecture, headless UI, serverless & low code frameworks
DevOps/Automation (CI/CD) for large scale delivery using Microsoft Azure DevOps, Terraform or similar IaC
Hands on expertise with monitoring and alerting tools like New Relic, Azure Monitor and Azure App Insights
Excellent collaboration, mentoring and stakeholder management skills
Be an advocate for strategy and work with different teams to implement
Able to demonstrate creativity and innovation in applying solutions for the benefit of the customer/stakeholder
Access to professional development resources and training is provided
We have active colleague teams, such as our Women in Digital & Tech team, that support women and other underrepresented groups in tech. We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and encourage applications from all backgrounds.
If flexible working is important to you, then look no further! At Asda, we are proud of our culture and our commitment to flexible working. This role is Leeds based in Asda House with the flexibility to work from home several days a week depending on workload.
If you have any questions, then please email
Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up 1.5 times colleagues' contribution (Max 15%)
• Company Car allowance of 8000
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream
• 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks - helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves