Principal Java Engineer

Company A global, product-led technology business building large-scale digital platforms used by major retail and consumer brands worldwide. This is a true product engineering environment, not consultancy or project-based delivery, with long-term ownership of complex systems operating at significant scale. The Role You'll play a key role in designing and evolving highly scalable backend services that sit at the heart of the company's product platforms. Working closely with other senior engineers, architects, and product teams, you'll influence technical direction, improve system performance and reliability, and help raise engineering standards across the organisation. This is a hands-on role with real architectural influence, ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex distributed systems problems while still being close to the code. Tech Stack Core development in Java Cloud-native services running on AWS Microservices and event-driven architectures Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pi...