IT & Software

Principal Engineer

Thomson Reuters

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Principal Engineer role, you set technical direction for HighQ, guiding design to production and raising engineering standards. You’ll partner with directors, architects, and staff engineers to shape multi-team outcomes and deliver scalable, reliable software. You’ll code hands-on while mentoring teams and driving AI-enabled capabilities for enterprise clients. The position blends architecture leadership with practical delivery on a high-impact platform.

Pay / Benefits
  • Hybrid Work Model: 2-3 days in the office
  • Flex My Way policies for work-life balance
  • Grow My Way: continuous learning and AI-enabled development
  • Flexible vacation and mental health days
  • Headspace app access and wellbeing resources
  • Tuition reimbursement and retirement savings
Responsibilities
  • Define and steer technical direction for HighQ across major engineering efforts
  • Architect complex, scalable, performant systems
  • Translate business needs into technically sound designs
  • Provide hands-on engineering contribution and code reviews
  • Mentor and uplift engineering teams to raise the bar
  • Collaborate with product, architecture, and engineering peers on design decisions
  • Lead integration work with AI/agent platforms to enable AI capabilities in HighQ
  • Improve reliability, scalability, and performance for enterprise workloads
Key requirements
  • Track record of designing, building, and delivering complex systems in production
  • Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor and own outcomes
  • Proficiency in Java and Python; broad experience with containerized services, relational databases, and distributed systems patterns
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and architectural direction across multiple teams
  • Experience driving reliability, scaling, or performance improvements in production
  • Familiarity with AI/LLM integration patterns and production-grade AI features
  • Clear communication of complex technical ideas to diverse audiences
  • Strong communicator
  • Mentorship and leadership
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Java
  • Python
  • containerized services

Reference: WJ-747_30148765

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