Location: London, UK (Hybrid ~1 day per week in office / onsite)
Contract: Permanent, Full-time
Package: £80,000-100,000 + 10% bonus + 10% shares options + benefits
At Appvia, we help organisations modernise how they build and operate software. We are a specialist cloud, platform, and solutions engineering consultancy, delivering resilient, scalable systems that enable teams to move faster while maintaining quality, security, and reliability.
Our work spans cloud platforms, developer experience, and modern application delivery. We partner with customers across public and private sectors to reduce technical debt, improve engineering practices, and support long-term system evolution using modern software engineering approaches.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a senior technical leadership role across Appvia’s software delivery engagements. You will help customers and lead a team to design, build, and evolve modern software systems, while guiding teams towards best practices in architecture, testing, and developer productivity.
This is a hands-on leadership role for an experienced engineer who enjoys operating across design, architecture, and delivery. You will work closely with engineers, delivery leads, and platform teams, shaping technical direction, supporting early-stage solution design, and mentoring teams delivering complex software systems.
You will also contribute to Appvia’s broader engineering capability, influencing standards, patterns, and approaches that are applied consistently across customer engagements.
Interview Process - 4 Stage
Requirements
You are a senior software engineer with strong architectural judgement and a passion for well-designed systems. You are comfortable leading technically, influencing delivery decisions, and working closely with customers in a consulting environment.
You’ll bring:
Experience in regulated or public sector environments is beneficial but not required.
Core technologies (in order of importance):
Nice to have:
Benefits
Why join Appvia?
We are a self-funded, London based startup; providing businesses with a fast and secure way to deploy containerised applications into the cloud.
We are on a mission to enable organisations to make cloud-based software delivery simple and efficient, whilst having the insights into costs, security and cadence. As a company that holds customers at the heart of everything we do, we are looking for candidates that want to make a real change to how Dev and Ops is working in the industry.
With us our customers, like the UK’s Home Office & Bank of England, are harnessing cloud-native technologies, limiting the challenges of infrastructure management and rapidly delivering digital products.
What’s on offer?
⚖️ Work-life balance
💚 For your well-being
🧠 Mental health support
😃 Other fun perks
But don’t just take our word for it, you can check out what our Appvians say about us on Glassdoor and by following us on LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage, respect, and recognise diversity of thought and background throughout the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity, and disability status.
Note: While all roles are active and approved at the time of posting, the dynamic nature of our start-up means some applications may be processed to pipeline talent for future opportunities rather than current openings. We will strive to keep you informed of any changes to the status of your application.
Why join Appvia? Commoditize Kubernetes Make being cloud native a reality Solve the Developer vs. DevOps challenge Challenge the status quo Be a part of a high growth profitable London start-up Work with some of the best brains in the industry Thrive in a role where what you do week-to-week actually matters and counts towards the bigger vision Please check out our live roles. If you feel you can add more value than what we are currently hiring for or simply want to be a part of the Appvia journey too then please reach out to: [email protected]
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