Shape the technical direction and mentor engineering teams to enhance quality and resilience, solving complex cross-domain challenges and delivering impactful technological solutions.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll report to the Head of Software Engineering and play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our Technology division. You will operate across tribes and platforms, influencing architecture and engineering strategy at organisational level.
You will work closely with senior engineering, product and leadership stakeholders to solve systemic challenges that span multiple domains. This role is an opportunity to shape long-term technical direction, strengthen engineering capability, and raise the bar for quality, resilience and effectiveness across Gousto. Success in this role means creating clarity in complex environments, aligning teams around shared technical direction, and delivering meaningful business impact through technology.
What you’ll do
Define and guide architectural direction across multiple teams and platforms
Solve complex, cross-domain technical problems with significant business impact
Influence long-term technical strategy while enabling near-term delivery
Identify and address systemic technical risks, constraints and dependencies
Partner with senior engineering and product leaders to align technical and business priorities
Evolve engineering practices to support scale, reliability and sustainable delivery flow
Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers to strengthen technical leadership capability
Foster an inclusive engineering culture focused on quality, learning and continuous improvement
Who You Are
Demonstrate deep expertise in designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
Influence architectural decisions across multiple teams or domains with credibility and clarity
Navigate ambiguity and define structure in complex problem spaces
Align technical strategy with business priorities and measurable outcomes
Communicate trade-offs and recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders
Apply strong judgement when balancing scalability, resilience, speed and cost
Bring a systems-thinking mindset to organisational and technical challenges
Champion high engineering standards, inclusive collaboration and long-term thinking
Benefits
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Gousto is for everyone:
Whether it's creating diversity in our recipes or building new teams, we care about our people and the opportunities they have at Gousto. Across our business we lead with inclusivity and strive for equity in all we do; working hard to ensure Gousto is an environment where you can be totally yourself.
Everyone is welcome and we're looking for applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.
For our roles outside of Operations, most of our people spend 1 or 2 days in our offices every week, combining the benefits of flexibility and time together with colleagues. We want to enable you to do your best work, and if you require additional flexibility, please talk to us about it.
We understand that some individuals may require reasonable adjustments to fully participate in the interview process. Please tell us what you need, and we will make every effort to accommodate. (e.g., Extra time or systems accommodations)
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Gousto is an online platform that simplifies home cooking by delivering pre-measured ingredients for hand-picked recipes directly to customers' doors. Targeting busy families and individuals seeking convenient meal solutions, Gousto stands out by offering a diverse range of recipes that allow users to bypass the supermarket and enjoy the satisfaction of cooking delicious meals at home.
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