Senior Principal Engineer - Product Engineering
Employer · Pepperstone
Software developerSystems analystApplications developerFlexibleFull-timeBudapest
You'll be the most senior hands-on engineer across our client-facing products, reporting directly to the CTO and providing senior technical leadership while remaining deeply hands-on. Join us and be part of a community that's passionate about harnessing technology's potential to drive market leading solutions for our clients.
Tasks
- Shape our technical direction: Define the multi-year architecture for our client-facing products
- Stay hands-on with our toughest engineering challenges: Work directly on our most critical systems, writing production code and prototyping new approaches
- Lead and shape AI-native engineering: Use AI coding and agent tools in your day-to-day work and help establish patterns and workflows
- Raise the engineering bar: Help set standards across architecture, APIs, front-end, mobile, testing, observability and continuous delivery
- Partner with our technology leaders: Act as a trusted technical advisor to the CTO and senior Product and Technology leaders
Conditions & benefits
Competitive salary structureCompetitive salary structure including company bonus schemeFlexible and hybrid workingFlexible and hybrid working with remote working option up to 4 weeks per yearPersonal developmentOngoing personal development & learning opportunitiesParental leave15 weeks paid primary carers parental leave & 4 weeks paid secondary carers leaveVolunteering days3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving ProgramOffice perksFrequent events, celebrations, fully stocked kitchen, and onsite coffee machines
Requirements
- You bring extensive experience designing and building large-scale software systems with proven Staff or Principal-level impact within a scaled consumer technology, SaaS or fintech environment
- You're still deeply hands-on. You're comfortable writing and reviewing production code, prototyping solutions and working across the stack when needed
- You have broad experience across client-facing technology, which may include web, native mobile, APIs, distributed back-end services, data stores and real-time systems
- You understand what it takes to build real-time, highly available products and keep them fast and reliable when demand peaks
- You have practical production experience with AI, including AI-assisted engineering in your own work, LLM APIs, agentic frameworks and evaluation
- You've successfully influenced technical direction across multiple teams without relying on direct authority
- You've led significant migrations or re-architecture initiatives across live systems
- You combine strong technical judgement with product thinking
- You communicate complex technical decisions clearly to engineers, executives and non-technical stakeholders