Summary

The Software Engineering Principal is a vital part of our business, serving as one of our most senior consultants within our North American leadership team. It requires someone who is not only an expert in technology, but who also can build relationships with clients, become a trusted advisor, and solve business problems.

In summary there are 3 core aspects of the role:

• Technical Delivery & Leadership: Experience architecting and building large-scale custom software solutions for multi-billion dollar businesses in North America. An advocate for modern software practices across languages and tools, cloud services and data related solutions. A background in leading multiple software development teams building custom solutions. An advocate for modern software and practices across languages and tools, with an opinion on how AI can be used in the process.
  
  
• Client Engagement: Experienced in presales, shaping engagements, and building strong relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Develop pitches and solutions for prospective customers. Experienced in shaping engagements, being the first on the ground dealing with early stage ambiguity, and then as engagements growth being instrumental in forming teams, and building relationships with the customer.
  
  
• Collaboration & Problem-Solving: An experienced consultant, having led multiple client facing engagements, acting as a trusted technical advisor to the customer.  Skilled in leading teams, with a flexible attitude in tackling a range of business problems, and breaking down complex problems into solutions. Highly collaborative with other team members and works in a visible manner.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with the ability to translate business problems to technical solutions, design technical architecture
• Hands to Keyboard experience, preferably in Java or Python, with the desire to learn other technologies and languages as needed
• Experience in the consulting or professional services industry, delivering results to end clients, and participating in the pursuit & pre-sales process 
• Experience using AI in the Software Development Life Cycle to help generate & review code, all while keeping a human in the loop 

About Equal Experts

Equal Experts is a unique software development consultancy that specializes in providing services which help customers to address complex technical challenges to create world class digital solutions.   

We are typically engaged by customers to build new digital solutions, to modernize existing solutions and to help our customers build software using modern techniques.  Our focus is not only to build the right solution but also to build it in the right way. 

We have a distinct business model that comprises employees and associates (independent contractors) of the highest caliber, and experience levels. For example, we do not engage graduates or mid-level engineers or consultants, as our core proposition is to bring deep knowledge, experience, and skills to our customers.

Our business is employee-owned, with our co-founders active and leading the business.  Our founders and executive greatly believe in continuing to run the company in a way that it can last for more than 50 years, and believe that retaining it as a private business will safeguard our values.

We are driven by our desire to create demonstrable value for our customers that will last well beyond our engagements.  Through this lens we make decisions that do the right thing for our customers and the people that work for us.  We carefully select who we work for and what we do, to ensure we can be successful for our customers, but also so that our people are working in fulfilling and psychologically safe environments. 

North America

Equal Experts originated in the UK in 2007, which is still the largest business unit with over 2000 active consultants.  Our annual global revenue is over $350M.  Equal Experts North America has been running in full operational mode since 2019 and consists of approximately 70 billable consultants, 46 of which are in North America, with the remainder working from one of our other business units, mostly the UK.  Our local annual revenue for 2024 - 2025 was $35M.   Given our history and size, we are still very much in an early growth stage and as such this role will play a crucial part in our future growth and strategy. 

Location: A strong preference for New York City, with up to 2 days per week in Manhattan
Travel: Up to 20% across North America

What We Offer

The base salary range is $225,000-275,000. You will also be eligible to participate in our profit-sharing program and receive a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), and paid time off.

Our company has been recognized as the 2nd best place to work by Glassdoor in 2025, for the second time. We prioritize creating a fulfilling work environment characterized by autonomy, trust, and mutual support, emphasizing teamwork over individual excellence. We promote a positive work-life balance, while being committed to our clients and work. Our tightly held values and low hierarchy enable us to focus on doing what's right for our customers and our people. 

This role will have the support of peers within the North America business unit, the Equal Experts global network, including other client principals, consultants, service leads, and people managers, offering both a close-knit community and a vast source of knowledge and support.

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA. 

We’re seeking Frontend Engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network. 

As a member of the team you will work alongside our clients to help design and deliver solutions to meet business requirements and help to improve the effectiveness of the clients' software delivery capability. And of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our values. 

You should have extensive experience delivering software on commercial projects backed up by good knowledge of agile practices such as TDD, pair programming and CI/CD to name a few. 

A growth-based, learning mindset is a must coupled with a passion for technology. 

This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way. 

Responsibilities 

• Working with the client and the team to determine system requirements and how best to deliver them. 
• Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices 
• Automation of system infrastructure and deployments. 
• Production support of systems you are working on (You build it, you run it). 
• Advocating agile practices to the client organisation. 
• Mentoring client team members. 
• Helping improve the team and clients’ delivery capabilities. 

Required Skills 

• Extensive, diversified experience developing, maintaining and operating enterprise scale distributed systems. 
• Expert-level knowledge of web, JavaScript, and the associated tooling. Experience with
• JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS, VueJS, and AngularJS are highly desirable. 
• Up-to-date knowledge of semantic HTML & CSS. 
• Hands-on experience with building performant, secure and accessible applications
• Hands-on experience with test-driven development and other forms of automated testing.
• Strong understanding of the principles underlying agile development and an understanding of the various approaches that can be effective in realising these principles in different contexts.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams. 
• Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to collaborate and share knowledge with other team members, including client team members. This also includes the ability to work collectively towards a common goal without insisting on a given course of action.

Nice To Have 

• Hands-on experience developing distributed systems including micro frontend architectures. ● Hands-on experience developing and running large scale production systems ideally in containerised/cloud environments using either AWS, GCP or Azure.

Description

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile
channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA. We’re seeking Frontend Engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts
network.

As a member of the team you will work alongside our clients to help design and deliver solutions to meet business requirements and help to improve the effectiveness of the clients' software delivery capability. And of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our
values. You should have extensive experience delivering software on commercial projects backed up by good knowledge of agile practices such as TDD, pair programming and CI/CD to name a few. A growth-based, learning mindset is a must coupled with a passion for technology.
This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.

Responsibilities
● Working with the client and the team to determine system requirements and how best to deliver them.
● Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices
● Automation of system infrastructure and deployments.
● Production support of systems you are working on (You build it, you run it).
● Advocating agile practices to the client organisation.
● Mentoring client team members.
● Helping improve the team and clients’ delivery capabilities.

Required Skills
● Extensive, diversified experience developing, maintaining and operating enterprise scale distributed systems.
● Expert level knowledge of web, Javascript and the associated tooling. Experience with Javascript frameworks such as ReactJS, VueJS and AngularJS etc are highly desirable. Up-to-date knowledge of semantic HTML & CSS.
● Hands on experience with building performant, secure and accessible applications
● Hands-on experience with test driven development and other forms of automated testing.
● Strong understanding of the principles underlying agile development and an understanding of the various approaches that can be effective in realising these principles in different contexts.
● Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams.
● Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to collaborate and share knowledge with other team members, including client team members. This also includes the ability to work collectively towards a common goal without insisting on a given course of action.

Nice To Have
● Hands-on experience developing distributed systems including micro frontend architectures.
● Hands-on experience developing and running large scale production systems ideally in
containerised/cloud

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA. 

We’re seeking backend engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network. 

As a member of the team you will work alongside our clients to help design and deliver solutions to meet business requirements and help to improve the effectiveness of the clients' software delivery capability. And of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our values. 

You should have extensive experience delivering software on commercial projects backed up by extensive knowledge of agile practices such as TDD, pair programming and CI/CD to name a few. 

A growth-based, learning mindset is a must coupled with a passion for technology. 

This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.

Responsibilities 

• Working with the client and the team to determine system requirements and how best to deliver them. 
• Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices 
• Automation of system infrastructure and deployments. 
• Production support of systems you are working on (You build it, you run it). 
• Advocating agile practices to the client organisation. 
• Mentoring client team members. 
• Helping improve the team and clients’ delivery capabilities. 

Required Skills 

• Extensive, diversified experience developing, maintaining and operating enterprise scale distributed systems.
• Expert level knowledge of your chosen programming language and the associated tooling. Experience with other languages is highly desirable.
• Hands-on experience with test driven development and other forms of automated testing.
• Strong understanding of the principles underlying agile development and an understanding of the various approaches that can be effective in realising these principles in different contexts.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to collaborate and share knowledge with other team members, including client team members. This also includes the ability to work collectively towards a common goal without insisting on a given course of action.

Nice To Have 

• Hands-on experience developing distributed systems including microservice architectures and RESTful services.
• Hands-on experience developing and running large scale production systems ideally in containerised/cloud environments using either AWS, GCP or Azure.

Description

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA. 

We’re seeking backend engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network. 

As a member of the team you will work alongside our clients to help design and deliver solutions to meet business requirements and help to improve the effectiveness of the clients' software delivery capability. And of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our values. 

You should have extensive experience delivering software on commercial projects backed up by extensive knowledge of agile practices such as TDD, pair programming and CI/CD to name a few. A growth-based, learning mindset is a must coupled with a passion for technology. This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.

Responsibilities 

• Working with the client and the team to determine system requirements and how best to deliver them. 
• Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices 
• Automation of system infrastructure and deployments. 
• Production support of systems you are working on (You build it, you run it). 
• Advocating agile practices to the client organisation. 
• Mentoring client team members. 
• Helping improve the team and clients’ delivery capabilities. 

Required Skills 

• Extensive, diversified experience developing, maintaining and operating enterprise scale distributed systems.
• Expert level knowledge of your chosen programming language and the associated tooling. Experience with other languages is highly desirable.
• Hands-on experience with test driven development and other forms of automated testing.
• Strong understanding of the principles underlying agile development and an understanding of the various approaches that can be effective in realising these principles in different contexts.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to collaborate and share knowledge with other team members, including client team members. This also includes the ability to work collectively towards a common goal without insisting on a given course of action.

Nice To Have 

• Hands-on experience developing distributed systems including microservice architectures and RESTful services.
• Hands-on experience developing and running large scale production systems ideally in containerised/cloud environments using either AWS, GCP or Azure.