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Principal Engineer - Java - £110,000

📍 Location
Broad Street, Greater London
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
July 17, 2026

About the Role

Principal Engineer (Payments)

Our long-term trusted partner, a leading financial services corporation, is hiring a Principal Engineer who has strong hands on capabilites in Java (17/21) & payment product experience who can contribute to real-time architectural decision making leading vision & strategy across Faster Payments, Real-Time Payments, Card payments, BACS, mobile wallets and APIs.

Our client is paying a basic salary up to £110,000 (circa) + 25% bonus + benefits to be based in London, Chatham (Kent) or Wolverhampton onsite 2 days per week.
Our client is seeking experienced Principal Engineer with recent retail / digital banking experience who is happy to be hands on (80%) and 20% architectural leadership by leading through example.

Your responsibilities will include:

Lead the development and implementation of a modern cloud foundation and data platform that is robust, scalable, fully automated, secure, and can support the growth of the bus...

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