Principal Engineer (Software Engineering/Devops)

Who are We? Grip is the AI-powered, end-to-end event platform built for engagement. The flexible system helps commercial event organizers like Ascential, Hyve, Emerald and Clarion Events boost revenue by establishing, maintaining and tracking relationships between participants over multiple events. This is possible because Grip goes beyond networking.

It combines AI with billions of interactions happening across the platform with a powerful event management system, seamless registration and award-winning mobile event app so participants meet the right people at the right time. The Team We’re hiring a Principal Software Engineer with strong experience across both software engineering and DevOps to join our Grip Engage team.

Our engineers are building a best-in-class event engagement platform, powering AI matchmaking, our mobile event app, real-time networking and an AI assistant used by tens of millions of people. We turn event-day engagement into rich insights for event organisers. This is a senior individual contributor role with two dimensions: deep product ownership within the Engage squad, and a wider platform remit working alongside other Principal Engineers and our VP of Engineering Ops to shape how we build and run infrastructure and pipelines across the organisation. We're an international team (UK, the Americas and Europe) that places a strong emphasis on quality. We're iterating fast and progressively refactoring our code as we add new features.