Principal Engineer
Posted 5 days 14 hours ago by Albany Growth
Principal Back End Engineer (Ruby / AWS / Postgres / Redis)
Hybrid (UK - Remote-first with London office)
£95k - £120k + Benefits
Albany Growth are partnering with a high-growth UK-based SaaS company backed by recent investment and now ready to scale their engineering team with 2 senior hires.
They are now hiring a Principal Engineer to drive backend excellence across a complex, high-availability platform used by global customers.
This is a hands-on senior leadership role with significant influence across engineering standards, architecture, and mentorship. You'll work across a modern Ruby-based stack, and play a key role in scaling platform infrastructure and guiding technical decisions that impact millions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of backend services in a mission-critical platform
- Set and uphold engineering best practices across performance, testing, security, and delivery
- Mentor peers and contribute to the technical and professional growth of the wider team
- Own features from concept to production, balancing architectural integrity with delivery pace
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering leadership on roadmap planning and system evolution
- Contribute to compliance-focused, change-controlled deployments with high DORA metrics (elite-level performance)
- Continuously improve tooling, observability, and infrastructure to support scalable growth
Key Requirements
- Proven experience as a Principal / Lead / Staff level Engineer, ideally in SaaS or platform environments
- Expertise in Ruby on Rails and strong understanding of distributed backend systems
- Experience with infrastructure at scale-ideally across AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, collaborative, remote-first environments
- Strong communication and mentoring skills with a product-oriented mindset
Remote-first (UK-based)
£95k - £120k base + 5% pension + private healthcare + benefits
Mission-led product with complex real-time challenges
Modern stack: Ruby on Rails / AWS / Terraform / Kubernetes / Go (for performance-critical paths)
If you're ready to shape backend systems that underpin global infrastructure, apply using the link and we'll be in touch with further details.
Principal Back End Engineer (Ruby / AWS / Postgres / Redis)
Hybrid (UK - Remote-first with London office)
£95k - £120k + Benefits