Principal Engineer

Openr is transforming how the hospitality industry manages and shares data. By centralising recipe, product, and pricing information, we help hospitality businesses seamlessly connect to platforms like Deliveroo and Just Eat, as well as EPOS and other customer touch points.

We've recently closed a significant funding round and are backed by Azzurri Group, one of the UK's most successful hospitality investment platforms. With strong market traction, we're now looking for a Principal Engineer.

We're seeking an experienced and technically strong Engineer to join our high performing Engineering Team. This is an individual contributor role, actively contributing hands-on code, whilst being a technical point of contact and mentor to more junior members of the team. You will work with the team to ensure projects are delivered on time and meet quality standards.

• Frontend: TypeScript, React, React Query

• Backend: AWS Lambda, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, SQL

• AWS cloud infrastructure

We are looking for someone who is backend focused but with a good understanding of frontend tech stack.

• Delivering high quality solutions

• Balance technical debt with feature delivery

• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in development workflows

• Ensure system reliability and performance

• Contribute to product strategy and roadmap planning

• Manage technical dependencies and risks

• Communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

1. Mentor a team of engineers.

2. Participate in recruitment, screening candidates, reviewing code challenges, and onboarding new team members

• Strong hands-on coding abilities in TypeScript, React, SQL and databases

• Experience with Serverless architectures and AWS

• Proven track record of delivering complex technical projects

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Strong system design and architectural skills

• Experience in SaaS or integration-heavy platforms

• Knowledge of event-driven architectures

• Background in scaling SaaS products

• Understanding of security best practices

• Opportunity to shape the technical direction of a growing SaaS platform

• No out-of-hours support requirements

• Direct input into architectural decisions

• Collaborative engineering culture

• Work with modern cloud-native technologies

• Based in Central London (Farringdon)

• Hybrid working policy - 2 days per week in our Central London office

• Life Assurance - 4x salary

• Income protection - 75% salary after 26 weeks of sickness

• 25 days holiday per year plus Bank Holidays

• Access to WeCare Employee Assistance Program

• Cycle to Work Scheme

• Annual eyecare voucher w/Specsavers

• Wrkit Savings& Benefits platform