Principal Software Engineer

🕒 June 2

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Aurora Energy Research

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2013

⚡ Energy

💰 Private Equity Round on 2020-10

Energy • Renewable Energy • Analytics

Aurora Energy Research is a company based in Oxford that specializes in critical energy market analytics. They provide data-driven intelligence to clients for strategic planning, portfolio management, and investment decisions in the context of the global energy transformation. Their offerings include comprehensive market outlook packages, specialized software tools for assessing wind and battery projects, and bespoke advisory services. Aurora also hosts events and webinars aimed at fostering discussions on vital energy issues while delivering fresh insights through reports and podcasts.

📋 Description

• Own and evolve key elements of the software architecture across multiple products, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and cost‑effective • Define and steward a clear, coherent integration architecture across our products and wider ecosystem, including principles and patterns for APIs, data ownership, and identity • Establish and maintain architectural guardrails (standards, reference architectures, decision records) that enable teams to deliver autonomously while staying aligned • Lead technical strategy on foundational capabilities that improve scalability, security, reliability, and engineering productivity as the organisation grows • Influence product and engineering roadmaps by identifying systemic risks, architectural bottlenecks, and high‑leverage technical investments • Act as a trusted technical authority for high‑impact decisions, balancing short‑term delivery needs with long‑term sustainability and total cost of ownership • Raise the bar for operational excellence by helping teams adopt proven patterns for reliability, performance, security, and observability • Invest in reusable foundations: tooling, libraries, templates, CI/CD improvements, and reference implementations to reduce friction and make high‑quality delivery the default • Engage hands‑on selectively and deliberately, focusing on: de‑risking complex areas and proving out new approaches • Champion pragmatic approaches to technical debt, helping teams make informed trade‑offs while keeping long‑term health visible and managed • Support teams in addressing root causes of incidents and systemic issues through learning‑focused reviews, automation, and durable architectural improvements • Mentor senior and mid‑level engineers to strengthen architectural thinking, technical judgment, and their ability to lead complex initiatives • Use design reviews, technical forums, pairing, and lightweight coaching to uplift capability across teams, focusing on enabling teams to solve problems independently • Influence through clarity and collaboration: articulate technical direction, explain trade‑offs, and build alignment across teams and stakeholders • Be intentional about where you engage, prioritising work that unblocks multiple teams, creates shared platforms, or removes recurring friction, rather than owning the most “interesting” problems yourself

🎯 Requirements

• Proven track record of designing, developing, and operating complex software systems that support business critical use cases • Strong architectural experience, with evidence of shaping systems that scale across teams and products • Significant experience designing and evolving APIs, integration patterns, and distributed systems • Deep expertise in at least one core technology area, with sufficient breadth to reason effectively across a modern cloud native stack • Exceptional technical problem solving skills, including working effectively through ambiguity • Ability to influence technical direction across teams through credibility, communication, and sound judgment • Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to engage engineers, product leaders, and senior stakeholders • Clear understanding of operational requirements (availability, performance, security, monitoring) and how they shape good design • Fluent English (C1 level or above) - only CVs submitted in English will be considered. • Experience working in a platform or ecosystem‑style product environment (desirable) • Experience evolving architectures in fast‑growing or scaling organisations (desirable) • Familiarity with data platforms, or large‑scale integration (desirable) • Experience influencing technical strategy without formal authority (desirable)

🏖️ Benefits

• The opportunity to substantially influence major decisions in the energy sector • The opportunity to grow into a publicly visible industry expert • A fun, informal, collaborative and international work culture • A competitivre compensation package • Hybrid working model (our office is located close to Brigadeiro subway station in São Paulo, SP) • Access to the Aurora Academy, our training programme offering a range of opportunities to develop your skills within the responsibilities of your role and within the wider context of the industry