Principal Engineer

We're looking for a Principal Engineer to set technical direction and evolve engineering practices across Motorway, reporting to the Director of Engineering. This is a broad role: your remit spans multiple product areas and every engineering specialties, and your decisions will shape what we build, what we buy, and what we retire.

You'll work with engineering leadership, product, and other functions stakeholders to continuously evolve our overall architecture and practices, and with our senior and staff engineers to turn that direction into working software.

You will own our relationships with AWS on the engineering side, our main cloud provider. It's the foundation of our platform and one of our most important partnerships. In practice, we expect you to lead the following activities:

• Frequently meet AWS representatives getting access to latest services and features, share feedback on our usage and needs, and be an early tester and adopter of new services/
• Identify new services we could adopt to continuously improve our reliability and ability to build new services and features at pace for the business.
• Share internally good practices on software engineering at the edge and usage of AWS services, including continuously updating technical recommendations for humans and agents.