Principal Engineer

Job description

Who are Picnic & what do we do?: Picnic’s mission is to drive a higher-quality ad-funded internet. Today, a large proportion of digital advertising is ineffective, intrusive, and poorly optimised. Picnic builds technology that helps brands make better decisions about where and how their advertising is shown - improving outcomes for users, advertisers and publishers. We’re a fast-growing, founder-led startup. Over the last couple of years, we’ve built a strong platform foundation and developed clear conviction around our product direction. We’re now entering a new stage where architectural coherence, reliability and scale matter as much as innovation. To support this next phase, we’re looking for a Principal Engineer to take ownership of system design, platform evolution and technical quality across the business. What will you be doing as Principal Engineer?: As Principal Engineer, you’ll report to the Chief Product & Technology Officer and act as the technical centre of gravity for Picnic’s systems and architecture - ensuring we build scalable, cost-efficient, production-grade infrastructure as the platform grows. This is a senior individual contributor role first and foremost - fo...