We are looking for a Principal Engineer to lead the technical direction of our platform, focusing on system design, platform evolution, and technical quality. As a senior individual contributor, you will act as the technical centre of gravity for Picnic's systems and architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency as the platform grows.
Requirements
- Proven hands-on experience delivering and operating backend or distributed systems in a startup or scale-up environment
- Deeply experienced in cloud architecture, particularly within AWS
- Confident designing systems that balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability
- Comfortable integrating AI tools and agent workflows into engineering practice
- Demonstrate strong judgement around trade-offs, technical debt, and operational risk
- Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Benefits
- Flexible, hybrid working setup
- 33 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays), plus additional Christmas shutdown
- Private Medical Insurance through Vitality
- Picnic pension contribution
- Inclusive parental leave policy