Principal Engineer

?? Principal Frontend Engineer – Build the Future of Cox Automotive Europe Location: Manchester - Hybrid Are you a visionary engineer who loves solving complex problems, shaping modern architectures, and building products that scale? Do you thrive in greenfield environments where you can influence the entire technical direction? If so, this is your chance to help build the Connected Platform that will power Cox Automotive Europe for the next decade. ?? About Us Within CAPTG, Product Engineering leads the development of high-quality, cloud-native software products used across Cox Automotive Europe. We embrace modern engineering practices, DevOps, automation and continuous delivery, all underpinned by a strong engineering culture. Now, we’re building our Connected Platform—a brand-new foundational product that will bring every Cox Automotive system together and give our customers a single view of all their assets. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to influence the architecture of a major new platform from scratch. ?? The Opportunity As a Principal Engineer – Frontend, you’ll be a hands-on technical leader who sets standards, drives best practice, and shapes the future of our platform. This isn’t just about writing great code (though you’ll absolutely do that).It’s about: ? Designing cutting-edge micro-frontend architectures? Guiding engineering teams with technical excellence? Influencing our tech stack, patterns and principles? Partnering with Architecture, DevOps, Infrastructure, Data and Product? Building resilient, scalable, event-driven systems on AWS? Driving innovation and continuous improvement You’ll work across React, GraphQL, micro-frontends, .NET, full-stack JavaScript, Event Sourcing, AWS and more—helping us craft a platform built for speed, scale and future growth. ?? Our Emerging Tech Stack You’ll help shape this—but here’s wh Salary: Competitive Salary, Bonus & Benefits