Principal Engineer

Collinson Group is a global leader in driving loyalty and engagement for many of the worlds largest companies Predominantly through the provision of travel related benefits within a market leading digital travel ecosystem The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide marketleading experience in delivering products and services across four core capabilities Loyalty Lifestyle Benefits and Insurance

The group provides unrivalled insight and expertise around affluent consumers and frequent travellers creating and delivering products and services now accessible to over m end consumers

We have more than years experience with global locations servicing over clients in countries employing people

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences

Key clients include Visa Mastercard American Express Cathay Pacific British Airways LATAM Flying Blue Accor EasyJet HSBC Chase HDFC

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work

Never short of ambition the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over colleagues globally

The Role

As Principal Engineer you will be responsible for driving a platform that empowers the wider engineering community to build solutions fast using APIs to access to the core platform capabilities You will balance integrating best in class SaaS where that forms part of our platform ecosystem along with building solutions where they are unique to our offering

You will manage and guide a team of platform engineers who will be responsible for building out the Collinson platform for the future

Key Responsibilities

• Work with product managers and the wider engineering community to design and build solutions for the wider engineering community
• To support the product and technology team on new and existing systems as required
• Champion agile best practices and Continuous Delivery to drive down backlog
• Implement effective tools and SaaS to enhance the engineering experience and enable engineers in other parts of the organisation to focus on delivering value to our customers
• To sustain and improve the quality of the software and the documentation delivered by the team
• To maintain a good technical awareness and familiarity with new and forthcoming relevant technologies and highlight any skills or training requirements within the team
• Maintain code documentation to company standards that accurately reflects system functionality and its technical implementations

Knowledge skills and experience required

• Extensive experience in large scale enterprise software development with a global reach
• Expert in creating simple solutions to complex problems
• Proficient in multiple programing languages with deep knowledge in many of the following Kotlin Go Python Nodejs Rust
• Experience in designing and building RESTful API services
• Working knowledge of Serviceoriented architecture
• Deep understanding of SOLID Principles Design Patterns and working experience of putting them to practice
• Demonstratable experience of Test Driven Development unit testing tools and experience of integration testing and continuous integration / deployment
• Experience mentoring and coaching junior engineers

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including colour race ethnicity gender identity sexual orientation neurodivergence family status age individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our ongoing success

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven high performing culture providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work Our company values are Act smarter Do the right thing One team and Be insight led These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think act and interact right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients

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