Remote Principal Software Engineer

Salary: £59,000 - 99,000 per year

Requirements

• A track record of creating positive business impact outside of writing code, such as leading a team, driving the rollout of a new technology, or owning the development of a major feature
• Previous experience as a full-stack engineer, including experience working directly with customers
• A passion for learning and continual improvement, with comfort giving and receiving constructive feedback
• Familiarity with C#/.NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, and React
• Expertise with an object-oriented programming language such as Java or C++, and a modern JavaScript framework such as Angular or Vue.js
• Proficiency working on a distributed, cloud-hosted product with rapid release cycles
• Experience working in an agile development team, delivering incremental small slices and reacting to user needs

Responsibilities

• Impact what we build, as well as how we build it
• Work across the business and talk directly to customers and partners to solve the most pressing problems
• Contribute to our pragmatically chosen tech stack, including C#, React, TypeScript, Postgres, AWS, and Kubernetes
• Help us define what great looks like in our engineering practices

Technologies

• AWS
• Angular
• C#
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Hardware
• Java
• JavaScript
• Kubernetes
• React
• Sage
• Salesforce
• TypeScript
• Vue
• ASP.NET
• CI/CD
• OOP

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We are Gearset, the leading Salesforce DevOps platform trusted by more than 2,000 companies worldwide, including Sonos, Intercom, TripAdvisor, Sage, and Salesforce. We combine the pace and ambition of a scaleup with the fast-moving environment of a startup across our HQ in Cambridge and offices in Belfast, London, and Chicago. We offer a collaborative, transparent, and trust-based culture, along with benefits including a salary of £78k-£90k+ depending on experience, flexible home-working when needed, a generous personal development budget of up to £1,500 per year, top-end hardware, free lunch in the office, BUPA health care, life insurance and critical illness cover, discounted gym membership, wellness benefits, and the opportunity to join our Long Term Incentive scheme. We are proud of our strong engineering culture and feedback-driven teamwork, and we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds.

last updated 28 week of 2026