Principal Engineer - Contract

Principal Software Engineer (.NET)

Location: Edinburgh

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Role Overview

• Principal-level engineer responsible for accelerating engineering delivery across a complex platform estate

• Focus on adopting AI-native engineering practices to materially improve development velocity

• Work across a large ecosystem including Microsoft CRM (SaaS), integration layers, portals, and bespoke middle-tier systems

• Identify delivery bottlenecks and implement practical improvements to engineering workflows, tooling, and processes

• Measure current engineering performance and drive measurable improvements in product backlog throughput

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Key Responsibilities

• Benchmark current engineering velocity and delivery performance

• Identify areas of engineering toil that slow delivery (e.g. immature DevOps, manual processes, hand-offs)

• Create and prioritise a backlog of engineering improvements

• Implement AI-assisted development practices using tools such as GitHub Copilot

• Drive improvements across the full development lifecycle — coding, testing, integration and deployment

• Improve pre–user story development workflows to accelerate delivery earlier in the process

• Work across a platform ecosystem that includes:

  • Microsoft CRM (SaaS)

  • Integration layer (TIBCO)

  • Multiple customer portals

  • Bespoke middle-layer services

• Demonstrate measurable improvement by benchmarking delivery performance at the end of the engagement

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Required Experience

• Strong experience as a Principal or Staff-level .NET Software Engineer

• Experience improving engineering productivity and delivery performance

• Deep experience in modern software development practices and architecture

• Experience working with large, complex enterprise platforms

• Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, and engineering workflow optimisation

• Experience introducing modern developer tooling and automation

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Nice to Have

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot)

• Experience modernising engineering practices in large enterprise environments

• Experience working with Microsoft CRM or SaaS platform integrations

• Exposure to integration platforms such as TIBCO

What we’ll offer you:

We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do.

We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.

We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.

Our hiring process

We try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process.

It usually looks like this:

• Call with our Talent Acquisition Team 
• Role specific capability interview 

Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens.

Inclusion at CreateFuture 

We believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work.

If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help.

We look forward to your application!