Principal Full Stack Engineer

**Company Description**
Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital-First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of Version 1 and what we do:

- UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
- 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
- 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
- Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
- Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you

As a Principal Full Stack Engineer, you will be leading a Scrum Team of cross-functional skills in tight collaboration practising Agile. You will be contributing to real decisions about technology to create maintainable solutions for our customers and participating in a highly collaborative group of software engineering professional’s. Learning, developing your skills further and continuously improving will be part of your role. You will develop software to meet our client's user needs, follow best practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines. You will have a strong background in full stack development and a passion for emerging technologies, particularly in AI and machine learning.

This role requires someone who has experience leading a team, is a self-starter and stays ahead of technology.
**Qualifications**
- Experience of working in a Scrum Team and an Agile environment
- Strong software engineering background covering SOLID principles with extensive experience in Python
- Experience working with AI/ML frameworks or a strong interest in AI/ML is required.
- Experience developing REST-based APIs
- Knowledge and some experience with DevOps and CI/CD tools (such as Jenkins, Ansible, Packer, Docker)
- Strong front-end development experience with React.
- Some experience in developing and deploying solutions on cloud preferably AWS Cloud, with expertise in AWS services such as Lambda, S3, EC2, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, and Cognito (AWS Certified Developer or Solutions Architect preferred)
- Experience writing unit tests and integration tests
- Financial Services or Capital Markets experience is preferred
- Ability to mentor junior members on the team
- Experience in managing and leading large/complex technical workstreams.
- Some commercial awareness to drive business growth, via pre-sales activities such as, writing technical and commercial documents and assist in project forecasting, planning, estimation, and delivery.

**Additional Information**
At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.
- Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits.
- Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme.
- Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance.
- Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme.
- Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies.
- Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat.
- Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.
- Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

And many more exciting benefitsdrop us a note to find out more