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Join us as a Principal Engineer If youre an experienced software engineer and youre ready to take your career to the next level, this technical leadership role is an opportunity to advance your career and realise your potentialYoull harness your extensive experience and role model engineering best-practices to guide and manage the delivery of technically challenging projects with extraordinary scale, scope and complexityYou can expect to grow your network and gain significant exposure both for you and your work, as you lead multiple teams to engineer innovative solutions and technology designs across the bank for our customers and colleaguesWe're offering this role at director level What you'll do With a fine blend of hands-on and hands-off engineering, youll coordinate, support and guide your teams to design and engineer software, scripts and tools that are customer centric, high performing, secure and robust. And with a sharp focus on opportunities for automation, youll create efficiency where it doesnt already exist by exploring and anticipating the impact of strategic challenges, and developing the proposed strategy, architecture and roadmap to drive them forward. Youll also be responsible for: Developing and executing a cohesive strategy that aligns product, design and business priorities, and converting these into technological solutionsEmpowering and enabling your teams to grow by facilitating discussions, sharing insights, driving collaboration, and guiding the direction of workWorking with software engineers to prototype innovative ideas, and engaging with our architects to validate and leverage them across the bankDeveloping design patterns, advocating our design principles and methodologies, and signposting the latest trends, technologies and toolsEnhancing our software engineering capability and inspiring our community of engineers to fulfil their potential by facilitating internal mobility, shaping career paths and coaching talent The skills you'll need As a senior engineer, youll bring a wealth of practical experience and technical knowledge to this role. From knowledge of our applications, interfaces, services and platforms, to hands-on experience developing and implementing deployment patterns, application tooling and legacy and industry-leading technologies, youll have the knowledge, skills and insights to support and guide your teams to engineer innovative, value-adding solutions. And, by harnessing your ability to engage and rally people around a tech cause, youll enable success at both a team and executive level and make a long-lasting impact through your work. You'll demonstrate: Extensive technology leadership experience leading large-scale engineering organisationsStrong knowledge of cloud technologies, DevSecOps, platform engineering, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, software architecture, and engineering governanceDeep hands-on expertise in modern software engineering and enterprise technology platformsProven experience defining and implementing engineering strategies across multiple product or platform teamsExperience driving engineering transformation through automation, simplification, standardisation, and AI-enabled software developmentSignificant experience of leading software development teams, executing strategies and implementing programming best practiceExpertise in multiple high-level programming languages .
Here's how to pick the right one and stand out in your application.
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.