Principal Software Engineer

About the compan y

Hydra Search is partnering with a highly regarded technology business developing advanced software solutions for a global market. Their products sit at the intersection of engineering, spatial technology, cloud platforms, and large-scale data systems.

With continued growth across their engineering function, they are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join a collaborative team working on technically challenging products used across a range of real-world applications.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems, contributing ideas, and working across modern technologies in a fast-moving product environment.

About the opportunity

• Greenfield development opportunity.
• Lead the development of scalable backend services supporting large-scale geospatial and data platforms.
• Contribute to the architecture and evolution of cloud-native systems within AWS environments.
• Work closely with engineering and data teams to design robust data models and platform capabilities.
• Develop high-performance ingestion, processing, and distribution pipelines for complex datasets.
• Help improve scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability across platform services.
• Contribute to engineering best practices, technical direction, and design reviews.
• Mentor engineers and support a collaborative technical culture.
• Work with modern backend technologies including Go, C#, distributed databases, search platforms, and large-scale data systems.
• Hybrid working environment with flexibility and strong long-term career opportunities.

About you

• Extensive commercial experience developing large-scale distributed software systems.
• Strong backend engineering capability with Go, C#, or similar modern technologies.
• Experience designing and delivering cloud-native applications, ideally within AWS.
• Strong understanding of scalable data platforms, distributed systems, and backend architecture.
• Experience working with high-volume databases, indexing strategies, caching, or search technologies.
• Comfortable working across evolving technical environments and contributing to architectural decisions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
• Previous exposure to geospatial, mapping, imagery, or large-scale data environments is highly regarded.
• Experience within Agile engineering environments.

Contact

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