Great opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer with experience of .NET and AWS to join a fast-growing FinTech company in Manchester that have an award-winning culture built on collaboration.You''d join a large engineering department and would work with cross functional teams responsible for building high-performance, cloud-native systems in a DevOps environment.As a Principal Software Engineer, you''ll lead by example, writing production-grade code while shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, and driving technical excellence across teams.What You''ll Be Doing: Designing and building scalable, distributed systems (60% hands-on coding)Leading technical strategy across multiple product teamsCoaching and mentoring Staff andamp; Senior Software EngineersOwning non-functional requirements: scalability, security, performanceDriving DevOps, CI/CD, and containerisation best practicesExploring and implementing AI-powered dev tools What We''re Looking For: Strong hands-on skills in C#, .NET 9, Angular, NextJS and AWSDeep understanding of CI/CD, automation and modern DevOps practicesExperience with Docker andamp; Kubernetes for containerisation and cloud deploymentExperience leading engineering teams or mentoring senior talentStrong system design skills including microservices, and cloud-native architecture The money is good too - up to £100k plus benefits including hybrid working, bonus, pension, share scheme and holiday allowance.If you''re interested in this opportunity and ..... full job details .....