Gearset is hiring a
Principal Software Engineer, Remote - United Kingdom

Summary

The job description is for a Principal Software Engineer position at Gearset, a fast-growing product-driven company with offices in multiple locations. The role involves working on product goals, collaborating with other teams, and directly with customers to build and deliver features using a tech stack that includes C#, React, TypeScript, Postgres, AWS, and Docker.

Requirements

• Have previous experience as a full-stack engineer
• Have created a positive business impact outside of writing code
• Love to learn and improve, and you’re comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback to make your work even better
• Write well-structured, testable code, with a focus on simplicity and maintainability
• Enjoy working across departments with a diverse team
• Are enthusiastic about working directly with users to build and deliver the right features
• Approach your work with pragmatism, prioritising iteration and delivering value to customers, over process and deliberation

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with C#/.NET, JavaScript/TypeScript and React
• Expertise with an OOP language (eg. Java / C++)  and another modern JS framework (eg. Angular / Vue.js)
• Expertise of working on a distributed, cloud hosted product with rapid release cycles
• Experience working in an agile development team, where you’ve delivered incremental small slices, and are comfortable with pivoting to meet user needs

Benefits

• Salary is £78k - £100k (depending on experience)
• This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday remote in the UK
• Generous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to £1500 per year
• Top end hardware provided
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)
• Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)
• Bupa health care
• Life Insurance & critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits