Principal Engineer

Are you a Principal Engineer who loves being hands-on, solving complex technical problems, and building products that customers use every day? At Specsavers, we''re building something truly exciting. Our IDOC business operates with the pace, innovation, and ownership mindset of a startup, backed by the investment and stability of a global organisation. We''re looking for a Principal Engineer to play a key role in shaping the future of our digital platform as we continue to scale and evolve our products across the US market. This isn''t a traditional leadership role where you''re managing from a distance. We''re specifically looking for a highly technical engineering leader whose primary passion remains engineering. Someone who still enjoys writing production code, solving difficult technical challenges, reviewing architecture, and working directly with teams to build great software. You''ll help define technical direction and engineering standards while remaining deeply involved in implementation, delivery, debugging, and production operations. Our products span frontend applications, backend services, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and digital commerce capabilities. We''re particularly interested in candidates with strong frontend engineering expertise who can help drive improvements in architecture, performance, maintainability, quality, accessibility, and customer experience across our digital products. You''ll thrive in this role if you''re equally comfortable discussing ..... full job details .....