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# Principal Engineer at Omaze

- **Company:** Omaze
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/omaze/ea40744f-b954-4f24-a410-469944cb346d

## Job description

Principal Engineer Hybrid - 3 days a week onsite

Who We Are: At Omaze, we give our community in the UK and Germany the chance to win luxury homes and other life-changing prizes — all while raising money for the causes they love. Thanks to our Omaze Community, we’ve raised over £150 million for UK charities in just five years. That’s millions helping organisations like Age UK, the RSPCA, British Heart Foundation and Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity deliver life-saving work. And the best part? We’re only just getting started. Omaze is building a business and culture committed to growth and creating significant social impact on a global scale.

🔑 About The Job We're looking for a Principal Engineer to help drive innovation and shape the future of engineering at Omaze. This is a highly influential individual contributor role, working alongside our existing Principal Software Engineer to help advance technology across the organisation. You'll partner closely with the CTO, engineering and product teams to help define the long-term technical components and scaling of our platform and technology. As one of the most senior engineers in the business, you'll contribute to tackling our most complex technical challenges as well as technical investigations and prototyping new ideas and innovations. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing pragmatic technical thinking with hands-on engineering, and who thrives on solving difficult problems that don't fit neatly into a sprint backlog.

🔧 What You’ll Be Doing

- Partner with Omaze's existing Principal Software Engineer to help drive innovation and new technologies.
- Work closely with the CTO and Engineering Managers to investiagte key technology decisions.
- Act as a technical advisor for complex initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure and aligned with our long-term strategy.
- Extend the engineering organisation's capacity for ad-hoc technical investigations, proof of concepts, rapid prototyping and strategic experiments.
- Lead technical discovery for high-risk or high-ambiguity initiatives before they enter delivery.
- Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve platform reliability, performance and developer experience.
- Champion modern mature software engineering practices, including automated testing, observability, CI/CD and cloud-native architecture.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, helping to raise the technical capability of the wider engineering team.
- Showcase Omaze’s technical innovations internally and externally.
- Facilitate technology reviews and encourage thoughtful technical discussions across teams.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend where they can create meaningful value for Omaze.
- Foster a culture of curiosity, continuous learning and pragmatic decision-making.

🤩 About You You'll be an experienced software engineer who has operated at Staff or Principal level and enjoys solving organisation-wide technical challenges. You'll likely bring:

- Significant experience designing and evolving large-scale systems and modern cloud-based applications.
- Genuine curiosity with creative thinking around emerging technologies and AI-assisted engineering.
- A proven track record of influencing technical strategy without relying on line management authority.
- Ability to move freely between go-fast experimentation and system-wide integrity.
- Excellent software engineering fundamentals and experience across backend systems, APIs and cloud infrastructure.
- High performance mindset, able to balance scaling challenges against product need.
- Strong architectural judgement with the ability to balance technical excellence against commercial priorities.
- The ability to quickly understand unfamiliar systems, identify root causes and propose pragmatic solutions.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- A collaborative, humble approach and a genuine desire to help others succeed.

🙌 What’s In It For You

- Generous stock options scheme
- 25 days annual leave PLUS Bank Holidays
- Private medical and dental insurance
- 9% employer pension contributions, when you contribute at least 2%
- A generous personal learning and development budget each year to use on training courses, conferences and professional memberships
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Life assurance of 4x your salary

DEI Statement We actively seek out diversity of thought and experience to drive innovation. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and perspectives and work hard to ensure that every Omaze employee can bring their authentic self to work at all times.

## About Omaze

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Omaze is an entertainment company with a social purpose that gives people the chance to win life-changing prizes while raising money for charity.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, last round in 2023)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (also has an office in Munich, Germany, and a US presence in Venice, California)
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on their main pages or LinkedIn; the company was co-founded by a team that included Ryan Cummins and Matt Pohl (who have since departed)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Entertainment / Fundraising (Prize-linked giving)
- Target customers: B2C consumers in the UK and Germany, primarily adults interested in charitable causes and the chance to win high-value prizes (homes, cars, cash)
- Mission or purpose statement: "We believe no one should have to choose between dreaming big and doing good." [omaze.company](https://omaze.company/about.html)

## Products & Services
- **Omaze Million Pound House Draw**: The flagship product. A prize draw where entrants can win multi-million-pound homes (furnished, mortgage-free) in the UK and Germany. A portion of proceeds goes to charity partners.
- **Omaze Monthly Millionaire Draw**: A recurring monthly draw offering a chance to win cash prizes, including a £1 million jackpot.
- **One-off Prize Draws**: Campaigns featuring supercars, luxury vacations, cash prizes, and experiences (often involving celebrity appearances like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Olivia Colman, David Beckham).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$127 million** across 8 rounds (Seed, Angel, Series B, Series C). Key rounds include a $1M Angel round (2012), $85M Series C (2021), and an additional Series C in March 2023. [LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/omaze-uk)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 8 total investors (not all named on public pages). Charity partners include Make-A-Wish, Feeding America, British Heart Foundation, RSPCA, Age UK, Teenage Cancer Trust, SOS Children’s Villages, and Plan International.
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Raised **over $250 million for charities** since 2012.
    - Created **50+ millionaires** and **thousands of winners**.
    - Expanded into **Germany** (Munich office).
    - Headcount grew **+181.8% year-over-year** (84 employees currently, up significantly). [LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/omaze-uk)
    - Active job postings increased **+112.5% year-over-year** (17 current openings). [LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/omaze-uk)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unique "Win-Win" Model**: Combines high-value prize draws (homes, cars, cash) with charitable giving, creating a strong emotional and social hook that differentiates it from standard lotteries or sweepstakes.
- **Strong Brand & Celebrity Partnerships**: Has successfully partnered with major celebrities (Schwarzenegger, Beckham, Colman) and top-tier charities, building significant brand trust and reach.
- **Proven International Expansion Model**: Successfully replicated its UK model in Germany, demonstrating scalability.
- **High-Value, Tangible Prizes**: The "Million Pound House Draw" is a unique, aspirational prize that generates massive media attention and consumer interest.

## Strategic Focus
- **International Expansion**: Growing the German market and potentially other European countries.
- **Product Diversification**: Launching new draw formats (e.g., the Monthly Millionaire Draw) to expand the customer base and increase recurring engagement.
- **Technology & Platform**: Investing in technology (hiring Senior Full Stack Engineers, Staff Software Engineers, SDETs) to build a scalable, best-in-class platform for prize draws and customer management.
- **Charity Impact**: Deepening relationships with existing charity partners and forging new ones to maximize social impact and brand goodwill.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Culture**: Employees are motivated by a clear social purpose: "making magic" for winners and raising significant funds for charity. The company states: "we believe no one should have to choose between dreaming big and doing good." [omaze.company](https://omaze.company/about.html)
- **Strong Employer Ratings**: Rated **4.1/5.0** on LinkedIn (96 reviews) across Work-Life, Compensation, Culture, and Career. [LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/omaze-uk)
- **Growth & Impact**: A rapidly growing company (+181.8% headcount YoY) with a proven model, offering employees the chance to work on high-impact projects and see tangible results (e.g., a winner getting a house, a charity receiving a large donation).
- **Work Environment**: Offices in London and Munich with flexible working options. The culture is described with "Virtues" like "Make Magic," "Take Ownership," "Fight Complexity," and "Be Bold." [omaze.company](https://omaze.company/about.html)
- **Generous Perks**: The careers page mentions "generous perks" as part of the employee value proposition. [omaze.company](https://omaze.company/careers.html)
- **Current Openings (July 2026)**: 17 active roles including Partnership Manager (Germany), Senior Full Stack Engineer, Staff Software Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Senior SDET, Property Director, and more. [LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/omaze-uk)

## Sources
1. [omaze.company](https://omaze.company/about.html)
2. [omaze.company](https://omaze.company/careers.html)
3. [LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/omaze-uk)
4. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/omaze)
5. [omaze.com](https://omaze.com/)

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