Principal Engineer

Hyperloop Recruitment
Liverpool, United Kingdom
2 weeks ago
Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Lead
Education
Degree
Posted
15 May 2026 (2 weeks ago)

Benefits

Remote/hybrid flexibility Senior-level autonomy Ownership over technical direction Competitive package Strong engineering culture
  • LLM / AI
  • Head of Engineering
  • Software Leadership
Lead / Principal / Head Engineer
North West
Circa 100k
Hybrid - 1/2 PW

AI Adoption | LLM | Development Strategy | Team Management

The Company
This is a high-scale digital platform business operating a platform used around the world. Heavy traffic and real-time systems with modern microservices feeding real-time data . You’ll be building and evolving core systems that underpin a complex, fast-growing product ecosystem where performance, reliability and speed of change actually matter.

AI Adoption | LLM | Development Strategy | Team Management

The Role
You’ll join as the most Snr Engineer and work top down on strategy and product and with a heavy influence over AI adoption. You’ll shape architecture across distributed systems, push scalability and resilience hard, and drag engineering practice into something sharper, faster, more modern.
Expect deep involvement in cloud-native infrastructure, DevOps maturity, CI/CD pipelines, and the increasing collision between software engineering and AI/LLM-driven tooling.

AI Adoption | LLM | Development Strategy | Team Management

The Benefits
Remote/hybrid flexibility, senior-level autonomy. You’ll get real ownership over technical direction and there’s a real chance to make a mark in the role. Competitive package & strong engineering culture

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