Principal Engineer (Backend)

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July 15

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IVC Evidensia UK

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Agriculture • Healthcare Insurance • Non-profit

IVC Evidensia UK is a global leader in veterinary care, operating approximately 2,500 locations across 20 countries. Founded in 2011, the company is dedicated to providing outstanding care for animals, investing in its people and practices to promote clinical excellence. IVC Evidensia focuses on creating a rewarding work environment for veterinarians, emphasizing local service delivery and continuous professional development through education and strong community engagement.

10,000+ employees

Founded 2011

🌾 Agriculture

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🤝 Non-profit

📋 Description

• IVC Evidensia is undergoing an exciting digital transformation. • We're building modern, scalable systems that empower veterinary professionals to deliver outstanding care. • Every role at IVC contributes to better outcomes for pets, vets, and pet owners alike. • As part of our central technology team, you’ll help shape the tools and platforms that support more than 2,500 veterinary practices across 20 countries. • As a Principal Backend Engineer, you’ll lead architectural decisions and hands-on development of complex systems. • Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across multiple engineering teams. • Design and implement scalable, secure, and event-driven microservices. • Partner with Engineering Managers and Architects to shape our long-term system architecture. • Lead delivery of large-scale, cross-cutting technical initiatives. • Promote engineering excellence through TDD, pair programming, CI/CD, and DevOps. • Mentor Senior and Lead Engineers, supporting technical growth and leadership development. • Actively contribute to codebases when needed to guide or unblock high-impact work. • Collaborate closely with Product, UX, Data, and Platform Engineering teams. • Champion observability best practices, including metrics, logging, and tracing. • Keep up to date with industry trends to influence our technology strategy.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience • Proven experience designing and scaling distributed, event-driven microservices • Strong knowledge of .NET/C# and the AWS cloud ecosystem • Experience with EKS/Kubernetes, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., CDK, Terraform) • Proficiency with relational and non-relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB) • Experience with messaging and pub/sub platforms (e.g., SNS/SQS, EventBridge) • Commitment to quality development practices: TDD, code reviews, design patterns • Strong mentoring and leadership experience within high-performing teams • Solid understanding of observability tooling and incident response

🏖️ Benefits

• Genuinely flexible remote or hybrid working (UK-based) • Dog-friendly office when you visit the Chocolate Factory • 6.6 weeks' annual leave, including bank holidays • Birthday leave – take the day off to celebrate • Enhanced family-friendly policies and discretionary bonus • Reduced-cost veterinary care for your own pets • Private medical insurance or Cash Health Plan (eligibility applies) • Company pension scheme with IVC contributions • Cycle to Work and Green Car schemes (eligibility applies) • Retail discounts and cashback offers • 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme • Ongoing wellbeing and professional development initiatives