Overview

IRIS Software Group provides industry leading business critical software solutions and services to manage core business operations. We started 45 years ago with accountancy software and have evolved to be relied on by more than 100,000 customers across 135 countries in accountancy, education and business. IRIS simplifies and automates critical workflows, allowing professionals in businesses and schools to focus on what they do best. Its software solutions and services for finance, HR and payroll teams, educational organisations, and accountancy firms helps comply with regulations, drive productivity and better engage with key stakeholders. Through simplifying, automating and providing insights on everyday mission-critical tasks for organisations of all shapes and sizes, IRIS ensures customers operate with confidence.

Summary

The Principal Software Engineer role is a key role in the IRIS Engineering Organization and is one of the keystones in the delivery of World-Class Customer Products, Developer experience and the advancement of our technology. As a Principal Software Engineer, your world is being embedded or supporting the teams where the hardest work is happening at any given time, helping them deliver good quality software with predictable velocity, helping them break through when they’re getting blocked, helping them get better over time, oiling the wheels of inter-team communication. Coaching, challenging and guiding the Engineering teams on great practices, processes and implementation.

As the Education Principal Engineer at IRIS you will :

• Drive the usage and best practices of AI Tools such as Devin, Replit, Co-Pilot, Cursor.
• Work with a high level of autonomy with regards to both focus areas and impact mechanisms.
• Demonstrate and educate industry recognised engineering Cloud Platform SAAS "best in class" practices/frameworks e.g. Highly scalable, resilient, extendable service and application designs.
• Influence and drive the technical strategic direction of the platform & estate with engineering Leadership (VPs, Directors, Managers and Architects).
• Promote the Iris technical culture externally.
• Nurture/Grow the internal technical culture of Iris.
• Drive harmonization of best practices and processes across the organisation.
• Lead new ways of thinking and new engineering initiatives across the org without defined authority.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Apply deep technical expertise to supporting teams in solving complex problems.
• Work with architecture and Central teams to continually evolve the technical strategy.
• Utilise understanding of cloud technologies to help teams engineer for high availability and performance of the platform.
• Support project teams on the right pragmatic trade-offs between rapid delivery and long term supportable code.
• Drive and support the adoption and driving of AI tooling and usage across the Product and Engineering Org.
• Enhance the delivery capability of any backend team.
• Take ownership of a problem space where appropriate.

Awareness and Impact

• Use passion and influence to drive impact at a wide scale.
• Anticipates issues that any ideas provided could cause and pursue the win.
• Be recognised as a “force multiplier” regardless of team or tech domain.
• Deliver business value through sound technical decisions and actions.
• Removes barriers for success through problem solving, collaboration and challenging the status quo.
• Actively mentors' other engineers to reach their potential.

Communication

• Present with confidence to various audiences with an understanding of how to tailor the communication to be most impactful.
• Raise Iris’s reputation in the technical community.
• Seeks and provides constant constructive feedback.

Key Relationships

• Functional Teams: Engineering, Quality Assurance, BA, Product Management and Support.
• Product Engineering Delivery Teams.

Experience

• Minimum 5 Years Experience developing and supporting engineers in their technical and career progression.
• Demonstratable impact of engineering delivery.
• Demonstratable creation and changes to applications using AI Tools.
• Ability to work with a high level of autonomy.
• Demonstrable knowledge of architectural concepts.
• Understanding of cloud-native technologies and architecture.
• Significant experience breaking down monoliths into microservices.
• Advanced experience (+5 Years) with engineering processes such as CI/CD, Continuous Delivery and Agile.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of core advanced topics (e.g., async, http, memory management, performance optimisation, profiling and debugging applications).
• Minimum 7 Years Experience working across multiple tech stacks with foundation into C# and .Net.
• Positive approach to problem solving.
• Minimum 5 Years Experience of working at enterprise level scale/throughput and reliability.
• Demonstrable experience of taking accountability and Technical leadership and ownership of a Domain/Large scale problem.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development