Principal Engineer

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a top-notch Principal Software Engineer to join the Bazaarvoice team in Belfast, UK. We are big believers in teamwork, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.

The ideal candidate is self-motivated, extremely curious, a strong communicator, patient, and highly enthusiastic about driving cross-team collaboration to meet our growth objectives.

Beyond designing and implementing traditional distributed, fault-tolerant systems, you will be a visionary champion leading our agentic transformation. This means you will fundamentally shift our engineering culture and architecture from a paradigm of engineers writing manual code to an advanced model where engineers design, orchestrate, and manage autonomous AI agents.

Requirements and Responsibilities:

• Agentic Transformation Leadership: Spearhead the transition from traditional code generation to agentic workflows. Define the architecture, guardrails, and patterns for how engineers build and manage AI agents to automate and scale our development lifecycle.
• Individual Contributor: Remain hands-on and able to code, build prototypes, and architect agent workflows as needed.
• Technical Ownership: Assume technical ownership of the security, quality, scale, and performance of products delivered from our Belfast hub (collaborating closely with our global engineering teams).
• Cloud Architecture: Oversee architectures, designs, and delivery of products built and deployed on AWS.
• Global Influence: Actively influence architectures, designs, and standards for the global product development team.
• Innovation & Roadmaps: Champion innovation and continuous improvements across the engineering organization , identifying and creating technology roadmaps that lean heavily into AI and automation.
• Prototyping: Develop prototypes and proofs-of-concept in support of AI/agentic technology recommendations.
• Talent & Mentorship: Assist in recruiting and hiring top talent per organizational needs , while guiding, mentoring, and evaluating highly capable technical talent to prepare them for an agent-driven ecosystem.

Required Skills:

• 15+ years of overall relevant software engineering experience, with 8+ years specifically within world-class product companies.
• Full-Stack Capabilities: 10+ years of strong full-stack software development experience.
• SaaS Architecture: 5+ years of experience architecting, designing, and building high-scale, high-performance SaaS products.
• Cloud Expertise: 5+ years of cloud experience.
• Agentic & AI Vision: Proven understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, vector databases, and AI agent frameworks (e.g., Claude Code, LangChain, custom agent orchestration), with a clear vision of how to shift engineering from manual coding to agent management.
• Communication & Collaboration: Strong communication and influencing skills across multiple geographic locations , alongside a proven track record of cross-functional collaboration.

Nice to Haves:

• Exposure to Big Data environments - data processing / analytics.
• Experience working within the Ecommerce space.