Principal FullStack Engineer / Tech Lead (Perm)

PRINCIPAL FULLSTACK ENGINEER/TECHNICAL LEAD
📍 Galway, Ireland
💼 Permanent
💼 Work model: Hybrid
💰 Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Overview

*Our client, a leading global financial services organisation, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer / Technical Lead to join their Asset Management Technology team in Galway.
*This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced software engineering leader to play a key role in designing and delivering innovative technology solutions that support retirement and college savings products managing over $950 billion in assets.
*As a Technical Lead, you will combine hands-on software development with technical leadership, guiding a high-performing Agile squad responsible for building modern microservices and user-facing applications. You'll have the opportunity to influence architecture, engineering standards, and best practices while working on highly visible, business-critical platforms.

Key Responsibilities

*Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary Agile development squad.
*Design, develop, and enhance scalable microservices and web applications.
*Drive technical excellence across software engineering practices, including code reviews, testing, automation, and CI/CD.
*Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Architects, Analysts, and Engineering teams to deliver business value.
*Perform root cause analysis, incident triage, and support complex problem resolution.
*Contribute to technical strategy, solution design, and architectural decision-making.
*Promote engineering best practices and establish development standards across the team.
*Support the delivery of innovative technology solutions for portfolio management, modelling, and trading capabilities.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Expertise

*Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
*Extensive experience in software design and development.

*Strong hands-on experience with:
oJava
oSpring Boot
oRESTful APIs
oAngular (or similar modern front-end frameworks)

*Experience with:
oOracle SQL and PL/SQL
oMaven
oJenkins
oCI/CD and DevOps practices

Nice to Have

*Exposure to AWS, Kubernetes, or cloud-native technologies.
*Experience with messaging platforms such as Kafka.
*Knowledge of testing frameworks including Karate, Playwright, Storybook, or similar.
*Previous experience within Asset Management, Investment Management, Wealth Management, or Financial Services.

Leadership & Soft Skills

*Thrives in collaborative Agile environments.
*Can effectively manage priorities across multiple workstreams.
*Demonstrates strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
*Champions engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
*Builds strong working relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
*Enjoys mentoring, coaching, and developing fellow engineers.
*Is passionate about delivering high-quality, customer-focused solutions.

What's on Offer

*Opportunity to lead the development of large-scale, business-critical applications.
*Exposre to modern technologies, cloud platforms, and microservices architecture.
*Collaborative, innovative, and supportive engineering culture.
*Career progression opportunities within a global technology organisation.
*Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
*Galway-based role with a current hybrid working model


If the role interests you, please get in touch via email for more details.
If you are interested in other roles or career change, please do not hesitate to contact me too.


Adecco is an equal opportunity employer.



Adecco Ireland is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.