Principal Engineer, Grip
Software Engineering / Devops
Plus equity
AI-powered event technology platform built for engagement
Posted today
AI-powered event technology platform built for engagement
21-100 employees
Posted today
Plus equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower professionals to achieve their networking potential.
Role
Who you are
- We're hiring a Principal Software Engineer with experience in both Software Engineering and DevOps to join our Grip Engage team, where our engineers are building a best-in-class event registration platform, dealing with complex configurations and integrations, handling payments, feeding our data pipelines and insights, and working on exciting on-site technologies like smart badges and location telemetry
What the job involves
- This is a senior individual contributor role with two dimensions: deep product ownership within the Engage squad, and a wider platform remit working alongside our Head of Platform and VP of Engineering to shape how we build and run infrastructure and pipelines across the organisation
- We're an international team (UK, the Americas and Europe) that places a strong emphasis on quality. We're iterating fast and progressively refactoring our code as we add new features. Everyone in the team helps direct our technical strategy and prioritise projects
- We embrace building with AI to help us deliver faster, and better, and we're looking for someone who is excited by this new era of software development and the opportunities it brings
- The Engage stack includes TypeScript (NodeJS/Express, Python (Lambda & FastAPI), Angular, React Native), DocumentDB, Mysql & Postgres. We use AWS for our cloud services and our infrastructure is managed with K8s, Terraform, Github Actions and Jenkins. We test with Jest and Cypress, and monitor our systems with Prometheus, Grafana and Sentry
- We are highly invested in your growth. Your career development is a standing agenda item in regular check-ins with your manager. As a Principal Engineer at Grip, you'll have real influence over technical direction platform-wide, opportunities to mentor across squads, and a clear progression framework. We use quarterly performance reviews to reflect on progress and set ambitious goals aligned with your aspirations
- Take ownership of features from start to finish using agile methodologies, delivering with feature flags, tests and observability
- Work with our product team to refine plans and identify issues and opportunities
- Deliver features with security and performance in mind
- Champion high-quality communications including technical proposals and specifications, testing reporting, release planning and more
- Be happy working across the tech stack
- Contribute to the technical direction for the squad - driving architectural consistency, code quality, and engineering best practice
- Beyond squad-level product work, you will take an active role in the health and evolution of Grip's wider platform:
- Work closely with our Head of Platform and VP of Engineer Operations on our AWS infrastructure (EKS, ECS, Lambda, CloudFront, S3)
- Design and improve CI/CD pipelines, progressive delivery, and automated rollback workflows and help standardise these practices across squads
- Drive reliability monitoring and tighten how incidents are caught and resolved early
- Extend our observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry) and ensure meaningful coverage across services
- Own security posture improvements across the platform: vulnerability scanning, pen testing coordination, and enforcement of standards
- Contribute to cross-platform architectural standards, shared libraries, and internal tooling decisions
- Identify and lead progressive modernisation of legacy systems — migrating and consolidating without disrupting delivery
Application process
- Screening call
- Product/engineering case study — a problem statement and requirements, working together to understand how you'd approach implementation
- Technical assessment — system design and technical interview focused on data architecture, pipelines, and platform trade-offs
- Final round with our Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer — culture fit and alignment on vision
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Grip is an AI-powered event networking solution that empowers professionals with quality interactions, and the event industry with full-cycle support and valuable insights. At its core, its proprietary technology drives intelligent recommendations through a self-learning matchmaking engine.
The platform leverages natural language processing, advanced algorithms and deep neural networks to constantly learn about the professional goals and interests of visitors, exhibitors and sponsors. This enables a higher return on time for professionals, and a higher return on investment for exhibitors, sponsors and event organisers.
As people swing back into in-person events, Grip is still in a strong position to aid event organizers in delivering live, virtual and hybrid events via its software solutions. This ability to cover all types of event retains Grip as one of the top players in the industry.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2021
$13m
SERIES A
Nov 2014
$0.1m
ANGEL
Total funding: $13.1m
Company benefits
- Private Health Cash Plan
- Company Training Sponsorship Programme
- Enhanced and Inclusive Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
- Remote-first working
- Rare opportunity to grow with the company and take the lead in shaping an entire industry’s use of technology
- Sabbatical Leave and extra days on tenure
- Group Life Insurance
Company HQ
London, England, UK
Articles
Leadership
Tim Groot
(Founder & CEO)Member of the Digital Innovation Working Group at UFI, The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry. Also a Pledger at Founders Pledge.
Lizzy Evans
(CPO)Joined Grip as VP of Product, and was promoted to CPO in 2025. Previously spent 4 years at Feedr, ultimately as CPO, and worked in product-based roles at a couple of other companies prior to this.
Maria Martin
(COO)Joined Grip as Project Lead for Business Operations. Was promoted to Head Of Business and People Operations, and then COO in 2020. Previoulsy worked in Project Management at Fourth, and in Partnership Projects at Marriott International.
People progressing
Hew joined Grip as SVP of Marketing in 2021. He has made a strong impact in this position, generating tens of millions in pipeline and revenue while leading a global team.
Christina joined Grip in 2020 as Director of Client Success. She became Director of Professional Services in 2022, before taking up her current position as VP of Sales and Customer Success later that year.
James joined Grip as Financial Controller in 2025, and was appointed Head of Finance a year later.
Pablo has worked at Grip since 2016, starting as a Software Engineer. He was promoted to Senior Software Engineer after a year, then became Chapter Lead (Middleware & Backend). In 2023 he transitioned to the role of Software Architect, and was promoted to Head Of Platform in 2024.
Dheeraj joined Grip in 2021 as Head of Engineering Operations, becoming Head of Engineering in 2024 and VP of Engineering Operations in 2025.
Emma joined Grip as a Junior Project Manager in 2020. She was promoted four times in three years, ultimately taking up the position of Director of Delivery in 2023.
George joined Grip as a Front End Developer in 2018. He became Engineering Manager (then Senior) in 2021 and 2023 respectively, eventually being promoted to Engineering Director in 2025.
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