Burns Sheehan
Principal Software Engineer
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Principal Software Engineer (Frontend) – Scaling Series B FinTech 🚀
💰 Up to £125,000
🏡 Hybrid working – once a week onsite in London
💻 React.js & TypeScript
We’re partnered with a scaling Series B FinTech based in London who are now looking for a Principal Engineer to join their growing team.
The business is rapidly growing, and they support large global organisations to automate and strengthen their financial control processes with the use of AI-powered solutions. Their platform transforms financial operations by replacing manual workflows with intelligent automation.
As a scaling business, they operate in a fast-paced environment where ownership, innovations, and impact are highly valued. This role will be reporting into the VP of Engineering, and the Principal Engineer will play a key role in scaling the engineering organisation where you’ll be combining technical leadership, strategy, and people management.
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You’ll be involved in defining frontend architecture, establishing engineering standards, mentoring future leaders, and contributing directly to the development of a modern, high-performing web platform.
What will you be doing:
- Lead, mentor, and support engineers including Lead Engineers
- Support performance management and career development planning
- Foster a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture
- Define and maintain frontend architecture standards using React and TypeScript
- Establish best practices for component design, state management, routing, and data-fetching
- Contribute directly to the codebase (approximately 30% of the role)
- Support code quality through reviews, incident management, and developer coaching
- Align technical execution with broader organisational goals
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What are they looking for:
- Experience leading engineering teams or managing team leads
- Skills in building and scaling React applications with TypeScript
- Knowledge of frontend architecture, performance optimisation, browser technologies, and modern build tooling
- Experience defining frontend testing strategies, including unit, component, and end-to-end testing
If this role sounds like a great match for what you’re now looking for or you’re looking to step into this role, to find out more reach out to me on charlotte@burnssheehan.co.uk
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