Omio is hiring a Principal Engineer (Java)

As a Principal Full-stack Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping Omio’s technology landscape across backend and frontend. You will lead complex, end-to-end initiatives, influence architectural direction, and ensure our systems scale reliably while delivering meaningful business and customer impact. This role combines hands-on engineering, architectural leadership, and cross-team influence—working closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams across the organisation. What You’ll Do - Own and drive end-to-end full-stack solutions, from frontend experiences to backend services and cloud infrastructure - Lead architectural design and technical decision-making for scalable, distributed systems - Align engineering solutions with business goals and customer outcomes - Identify and manage technical debt, making pragmatic trade-offs between speed and long-term scalability - Lead cross-team technical initiatives and align multiple stakeholders with end-to-end responsibility - Mentor engineers across teams, raising the bar for full-stack engineering excellence - Define and promote engineering best practices, standards, and reusable patterns - Contribute to internal and external tech talks, representing Omio’s engineering culture - Evangelize use of AI tools and automation in transforming how Omio designs, develops, and delivers software Tech Stack - Backend & APIs: Java, Node.js, REST, GraphQL (experience with JVM-based services is a plus) - Frontend: TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), React, React Native, Styled Components - Cloud & Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Data & Systems: Distributed systems, scalable architectures, database design & optimization - Testing & Quality: Jest, Cypress - Tooling & Collaboration: GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code