Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead

Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead

Department: Software Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Leeds - Hybrid

Reporting To: Tech Director

Description

We're hiring a Principal Software Engineer/Tech Lead to help shape the future of our most ambitious client projects.

This is a senior, hands‑on role that blends deep technical expertise with strategic consultancy. You’ll be working at the earliest stages of client engagements - helping uncover the real problems, defining the right approach, and proposing commercially viable, technically sound solutions without needing to escape for support. You’ll represent Parallax with confidence, pitch ideas persuasively, and guide both clients and internal teams from initial scoping through to architecture, delivery and optimisation. Equally comfortable in the code and leading client workshops, you’ll set the technical direction while...