Posted 17 days ago
Description
Principal Software Engineer (Go / AdTech) Location: West Midlands (Hybrid)
Salary: Competitive Bonus Equity Options
Type: Full-time, Permanent
Build the Future of eCommerce GrowthWe're partnering with a rapidly scaling SaaS technology company transforming how eCommerce brands acquire, engage and retain customers. Following significant growth and investment, we're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help shape the next generation of our advertising and marketing technology platform
.This is a strategic technical leadership role where you'll influence architecture, mentor engineering teams, and drive the development of high-scale systems processing significant advertising and customer data volumes across multiple digital channels
.
If you've built AdTech platforms, worked with advertising APIs, and enjoy solving complex distributed systems challenges, we'd love to speak with yo
u.The RoleAs a Principal Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams while remaining hands-on with architecture and critical development initiative
s.
You'll play a key role in evolving a platform that integrates deeply with major advertising ecosystems, helping merchants optimise campaign performance and maximise customer acquisition R
OI.
Key Responsibili
- tiesLead the architecture and design of highly scalable cloud-native syst
- ems.Drive technical strategy and engineering best practices across the organisat
- ion.Build and optimise backend services using
- Go.Design and develop integrations with major advertising platforms and A
- PIs.Collaborate with Product, Data, and Commercial teams to deliver innovative AdTech capabilit
- ies.Mentor senior engineers and contribute to engineering leaders
- hip.Champion performance, reliability, security, and observability across the platf
- orm.Influence technology decisions and long-term platform evolut
ion.
What We're Lookin
- ienceSignificant experience in a Principal, Staff, Lead, or Senior Software Engineering
- role.Strong commercial experience with Go (Gol
- ang).Experience building and scaling distributed SaaS platf
- orms.Strong cloud experience, ideally with Google Cloud Platform (
- GCP).Experience working within AdTech, MarTech, Performance Marketing, or Digital Advertising environm
- ents.Hands-on experience integrating with advertising platforms and
APIs.
Advertising Platform Expe
rienceWe're particularly interested in candidates with experien
- ce of:Google Ads (highly desi
- rable)Microsoft Advertising / Bing Ads (highly desi
- m Ads)TikT
- ok AdsOther paid media and programmatic advertising pla
tforms
Additional
- SkillsExperience with React and modern frontend devel
- opment.Event-driven and microservices archite
- ctures.Data-intensive systems and analytics pla
- tforms.CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and modern engineering pra
- ctices.Strong stakeholder management and technical communication
skills.
Nice
- to HaveExperience within eCommerce technology pl
- atforms.Exposure to customer acquisition, attribution, campaign optimisation, or marketing analytics p
- roducts.Experience operating at hyper-growt
- h scale.Previous involvement in platform modernisation or large-scale technical transformation init
iatives.
- Why Join?Join a genuine high-growth SaaS succe
- ss story.Work on technically challenging products at significativa
- nt scale.Influence business-critical architecture and technology d
- ecisions.Collaborative, engineering-led
- culture.Competitive salary, bonus, and equity opp
- ortunity.Flexible hybrid working in the West
