IT & Software

Principal Software Engineer - Full Stack

Accenture

Manchester · Greater Manchester · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Principal Software Engineer role, you will lead high-impact engineering work for Accenture’s Software & Platform Engineering team in Manchester with ad hoc UK travel. You’ll steer client delivery, balancing hands-on technical work with team leadership to ensure strong outcomes. You’ll work across domains and stacks, shaping product engineering while keeping focus on value, quality, and delivery speed. This is a chance to influence tech strategy, mentor engineers, and contribute to a culture of innovation across a global network.

Pay / Benefits
  • 30 days vacation per year
  • private medical insurance
  • 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work
  • extensive benefits package
  • mobility to visit client sites
Responsibilities
  • Lead client accounts holistically, overseeing people, delivery, quality, and commercial aspects
  • Advocate for value-driven engineering and simple, low-complexity solutions
  • Lead and grow engineering teams; mentor and develop junior engineers
  • Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders to drive results
  • Contribute to internal and regional engineering communities and share knowledge
  • Deliver backend services across multiple integration paradigms (synchronous, message-driven, event-driven) and ensure cloud-native deployment
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to adapt tech stacks per client needs
  • Promote DevOps practices and automated testing in project delivery
Key requirements
  • Significant experience leading teams and growing engineers’ careers
  • Proven ability to build relationships with stakeholders expecting measurable results
  • Extensive backend service experience across integration paradigms (synchronous, message-driven, event-driven)
  • Fluency in Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, or React
  • Recent experience building, deploying, and running cloud-native apps on AWS and/or Azure
  • Experience defining strategies and delivering products/services using AI capabilities (Agentic AI)
  • Comfort working in DevOps environments and implementing automated tests
  • strong leadership and mentoring
  • stakeholder management
  • collaborative, egoless teamwork
  • backend service development
  • integration paradigms (synchronous, message-driven, event-driven)
  • Java

Reference: WJ-747_30181089

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