Principal Software Engineer, Platform

Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients. Our platform & infrastructure team provide the hardened, high-velocity foundations that allow our product teams to ship code to production that moves billions of pounds with total confidence. As a Principal Software Engineer for our Platform team, you are both an architect of our engineering principles and a builder of the ground we stand on. This is a high-leverage position where you’ll define how we scale, how we deploy, and how we maintain excellence. You’ll spend your time at the intersection of deep technical strategy and hands-on execution, ensuring our internal systems are as polished as our customer-facing products.