Principal Software Engineer
Salary: £68,000 - 68,000 per year
Requirements:- Deep mastery of C# and .NET
- SQL database design experience
- Solution architecture experience
- Cloud infrastructure experience, ideally Azure
- Experience using AI coding tools
- Experience leading complex technical initiatives
- Experience setting engineering standards
- Experience proactively managing risks
- Professional, production-level experience designing and building applications using C# and .NET
- Right to work in the United Kingdom
- Ability to travel to Edinburgh as required
- We are unable to offer sponsorship
- Champion engineering excellence across our technical landscape
- Oversee high-level design challenges across squads and ensure alignment with client needs
- Guide Tech Leads and developers to support professional growth and foster collaboration
- Lead the adoption of AI engineering practices across the full engineering lifecycle
- Drive documentation standards and lead technical discussions, guilds, and company-wide forums
- Tackle complex challenges across multiple squads and break them into actionable steps
- Mitigate risks at an organisational level
- Empower our engineering squads to build scalable digital products
- AI
- Azure
- C#
- Cloud
- Support
- SQL
- ASP.NET
- Mobile
- Security
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We are ClearSky, The Tech Enabler, and we unlock business growth by turning complex technical challenges into simple, high-performance digital solutions. Our engineering teams deliver bespoke software and AI solutions, and we believe in building solid software. We are hiring a Principal Engineer to help shape technical strategy, lead engineering excellence, and support our squads in building brilliant, scalable digital products. The role is based in Edinburgh at 4 Queen Street, with a hybrid working pattern of three days on site. We offer up to £68,000 plus a 10% company bonus, 34 days holiday, a birthday day off, sick pay, private dental and medical insurance, enhanced family-friendly policies, tailored professional development, office perks, and team celebrations. We value quality, creativity, autonomy, and a culture where our team can thrive and grow.
last updated 36 week of 2026