Principal Software Engineer
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19 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
As a Principal Software Engineer youll report to the Head of Software Engineering and play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our Technology division. You will operate across tribes and platforms influencing architecture and engineering strategy at organisational level.
You will work closely with senior engineering product and leadership stakeholders to solve systemic challenges that span multiple domains. This role is an opportunity to shape long-term technical direction strengthen engineering capability and raise the bar for quality resilience and effectiveness across Gousto. Success in this role means creating clarity in complex environments aligning teams around shared technical direction and delivering meaningful business impact through technology.
What youll do
Define and guide architectural direction across multiple teams and platforms
Solve complex cross-domain technical problems with significant business impact
Influence long-term technical strategy while enabling near-term delivery
Identify and address systemic technical risks constraints and dependencies
Partner with senior engineering and product leaders to align technical and business priorities
Evolve engineering practices to support scale reliability and sustainable delivery flow
Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers to strengthen technical leadership capability
Foster an inclusive engineering culture focused on quality learning and continuous improvement
Who You Are
Demonstrate deep expertise in designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
Influence architectural decisions across multiple teams or domains with credibility and clarity
Navigate ambiguity and define structure in complex problem spaces
Align technical strategy with business priorities and measurable outcomes
Communicate trade-offs and recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders
Apply strong judgement when balancing scalability resilience speed and cost
Bring a systems-thinking mindset to organisational and technical challenges
Champion high engineering standards inclusive collaboration and long-term thinking
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Benefits
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Gousto is for everyone:
Whether its creating diversity in our recipes or building new teams we care about our people and the opportunities they have at Gousto. Across our business we lead with inclusivity and strive for equity in all we do; working hard to ensure Gousto is an environment where you can be totally yourself.
Everyone is welcome and were looking for applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.
For our roles outside of Operations most of our people spend 1 or 2 days in our offices every week combining the benefits of flexibility and time together with colleagues. We want to enable you to do your best work and if you require additional flexibility please talk to us about it.
We understand that some individuals may require reasonable adjustments to fully participate in the interview process. Please tell us what you need and we will make every effort to accommodate. (e.g. Extra time or systems accommodations)
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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