Principal Java Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer Salary to £80k, poss. higher for their ''Unicorn'' candidate Role can be based remotely, as long as you can occasionally travel to London for client work (travel expenses paid) - approx. once a month. NB: Please only apply if you are a UK National, have resided in the UK for the past 5 years and are prepared to go through UK SC Security Clearance. Proof of ID will be required prior to interview. This role is with a growing is a technology consultancy. This is a hands-on principal engineering role: architecture ownership across multiple services, technical leadership across teams, and direct contribution to engineering standards and hiring. Their successful candidate will be writing code as well as setting direction - this is not a purely architectural or management position. Current delivery is a Java/Spring Boot microservices platform on AWS EKS, with a Next.js frontend and Camunda-based process orchestration. Essential Experience level: 10+ years minimum, principal or staff grade equivalent. Backend and cloud: Java 17 or 21, at expert level - modern language features Spring Boot in depth: security, transaction management, async/reactive Microservices architecture design - has designed services from scratch Kubernetes and Docker in production (not local development use) AWS, hands-on: EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, EventBridge CI/CD pipeline ownership Automated testing discipline: JUnit, Mockito, integration testing, TDD or BDD Frontend: Held ..... full job details .....