ABOUT US

We are The Very Group, and we’re here to help families on a budget get more out of life. We know that our customers work hard for their families and have a lot to balance in their busy lives. That’s why we combine amazing brands and products with flexible payment options on Very.co.uk to help them say yes to the things they love when they need them most.

ROLE PURPOSE

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building and running front-end and/or back-end software solutions in an agile delivery squad. This role is hands-on, you’ll be actively involved in designing, implementing and running the products and services that your squad are responsible for. You’ll help shape best practices in software engineering, then both work to and coach other Squad members into driving and ensuring high quality solutions.

SCOPE OF ROLE

Nature and Area of impact:

• Full Software Development Life Cycle, including coding practices, frameworks, tech debt and operations for all engineering activities within your squad.
• Work with other Engineers in your Squad/ Tribe, Business Analysts, Product Owners and Architects to envision, design and deliver industry leading systems.
• Identify, build, acquire, enhance Software Engineering standards and tools. Influencing Leads, Architects and other Engineers to agree and adopt.
• Design and build software that balances the commercial needs of the business alongside delivering the future tech roadmap.
• Lead and actively participate in application and database design, data flows and detailed technical design. Ensure that analysis includes the wider view of technical and business impact.
• Own your code quality. Work with other Engineers to drive this behaviour in them
• Own non-functional requirements around performance, security and scalability to ensure we deliver a great customer experience. Driving best practice around real-time logging, monitoring, alerting.
• Proactively drive the enhancement of continuous integration to improve deployment processes in the squad.
• Identify obstacles, risks and issues that may / do impact the technical product and work with all stakeholders required to mitigate them.
• Adhere to policies and standards that impact solutions.
• Provide Run support for technical products within Squad.
• Proactively support and mentor other team members, working with them to help them improve their skills.
• Champion your Squads engineering successes and best practices both internally and externally
• Understand the external Technology landscape and look to leverage this knowledge to enhance software engineering in your Squad/ Tribe and across The Very Group.