Title: Staff / Principal Engineer (High-Growth Startups)

Location: London, hybrid

Salary: Up to £300,000 + Meaningful Equity

This role is with one of Dex's trusted partner companies. We work closely with their teams to truly understand their culture, goals, and what they're looking for, so we can match you with the right opportunity and give you context about the role before you commit to a process .

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The role

Up to £300k plus serious equity for Staff and Principal engineers at the strongest London startups. AI-native, developer tools, fintech, B2B SaaS, all post product-market fit and scaling fast.

These companies want senior ICs who set technical direction, not technical leaders who left coding behind. The decisions you make now compound across the next five years of the business.

The work

• Set technical direction across critical product surfaces
• Lead architecture for systems that need to scale 10x within 12 to 18 months
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raise the bar across the team
• Partner directly with founders, CTOs, and product leadership

What you bring

• Strong track record at Staff or Principal level, ideally at multiple high-growth companies
• Deep technical breadth: backend, frontend, infra, or systems
• History of leading non-trivial architectural decisions and seeing them through
• Strong written communication and a bias to ownership over abstract leadership

Why apply through Dex

We work with most of the strongest London startups hiring at this level. Sign up once and we'll surface the right roles for you, with proper context on each before you commit to a

process.

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