Principal Software Engineer, PEXA
£100-120k
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Online property settlement, tracking and insights
Open for applications
Online property settlement, tracking and insights
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£100-120k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To transform property experiences.
Role
Who you are
- You're a highly experienced technologist who combines deep technical expertise with strategic thinking and business acumen
- You thrive on solving complex problems at scale, influencing engineering direction, and helping others grow
- Significant experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems
- A track record of defining technical strategy and driving organisation-wide engineering outcomes
- Strong experience working across multiple teams, platforms and stakeholders
- Proven ability to balance technical excellence with commercial priorities
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation
- You'll bring deep expertise across modern software engineering practices and technologies, including:
- Node.js, Python and Kotlin
- Modern frontend technologies
- Cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure
- Microservices and distributed architectures
- Containerisation and cloud-native development
- Security architecture and secure software development practices
- Performance, scalability and reliability engineering
- You'll also have a strong interest in the rapidly evolving AI landscape, including:
- AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cline and Amazon Q
- Agentic AI frameworks and orchestration platforms
- Modern approaches to context engineering and AI-enhanced developer productivity
- Evaluating and adopting emerging AI technologies within engineering organisations
Desirable
- Experience within financial services, property technology or other regulated industries
- Exposure to DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Platform Engineering environments
- Knowledge of AI frameworks and technologies including Anthropic Claude, LangGraph, Hugging Face, LiteLLM or Pydantic AI
What the job involves
- We're looking for an exceptional Principal Engineer to help shape the future of engineering at PEXA UK
- This is one of the most influential technical roles within our organisation
- Working closely with the UK CTO and engineering leadership team, you'll define technical strategy, drive architectural decisions, champion innovation, and help build the engineering capabilities that support our next phase of growth
- As a technical leader, you'll operate across multiple teams, influencing engineering direction at an organisational level rather than within a single product or platform
- You'll mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, evaluate emerging technologies, and ensure we're building secure, scalable and resilient solutions that deliver outstanding customer outcomes
- You'll also play a key role in advancing how we leverage AI across both our products and engineering practices, helping PEXA stay at the forefront of technology innovation
- Technical Strategy & Architecture:
- Define and execute engineering strategy across multiple teams and domains
- Drive architectural decisions that balance business priorities, scalability, security and long-term sustainability
- Design solutions that support future growth and evolving customer needs
- Identify and address technical risks across the organisation
- Engineering Excellence:
- Establish and evolve engineering standards, best practices and quality frameworks
- Drive improvements in performance, reliability, security and developer productivity
- Champion modern software engineering principles and continuous improvement
- Support the evolution of platform, infrastructure and service architecture
- AI & Emerging Technology:
- Lead the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies and AI capabilities
- Drive the integration of AI tools and practices that enhance engineering effectiveness
- Explore and implement modern AI-powered development workflows, coding assistants and agentic systems
- Help shape PEXA's approach to AI innovation and organisational adoption
- Leadership & Mentorship:
- Mentor and coach engineers across all levels, from emerging talent to senior technical leaders
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, curiosity and continuous learning
- Lead technical discussions, knowledge-sharing initiatives and engineering communities of practice
- Contribute to hiring and technical assessment processes
- Collaboration & Business Impact:
- Partner with Product, Design and Business leaders to align technical strategy with organisational goals
- Translate business objectives into technical roadmaps and engineering outcomes
- Influence decision-making at executive level through clear communication and technical insight
- Represent PEXA externally within the technology community and industry forums
Our take
Even as industries embrace the digital revolution, some practices lag behind. For example, property exchange and remortgaging still involve a host of paperwork and back-and-forth between parties. PEXA supplies an eConveyancing platform to automate and simplify these processes, improving accuracy and efficiency while reducing costs.
PEXA was founded in 2010 to bring automation to the Australian property market, before expanding to the UK. The company created its eConveyancing service from scratch, including developing the technology behind it, and can serve property exchange, purchase, development and more; though the PEXA UK division is currently focussed solely on its novel remortgaging solution, as the volume of UK remortgages is expected to rapidly escalate with growing interest rates.
PEXA has benefitted from the pandemic-instigated digital transformation, as well as the similarly fuelled property market boom, which allowed the company to grow rapidly in Australia. Having brought its platform to the much larger UK property market, the company has a chance to demonstrate the value of its digital property settlement solution to a new range of customers and the potential for massive growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Company HQ
Civic Quarter, Leeds, UK
Leadership
Joe Peppe
(CEO)They joined PEXA UK in 2023 as CEO. Prior to this, they were the CEO of tmgroup, Managing Director at EDM Group, Business Development Director at RR Donnelley, and Senior Account Manager at Williams Leaf.
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