--- title: 'Principal Software Engineer at UiPath' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/principal-software-engineer-uipath-london-5gz1gvh5pkja' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-29' --- # Principal Software Engineer at UiPath - **Company:** [UiPath](https://feeny.ai/companies/uipath) - **Location:** London, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-21 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/uipath/a5bf1340-bb30-49b7-a86a-1f6b69d36c27 ## Job description Life at UiPath The people at UiPath believe in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. We’re committed to creating category-leading enterprise software that unleashes that power. To make that happen, we need people who are curious, self-propelled, generous, and genuine. People who love being part of a fast-moving, fast-thinking growth company. And people who care—about each other, about UiPath, and about our larger purpose. Could that be you? ## Your mission UiPath’s Intelligence Document Processing drives understanding of the documents and messages on which a business runs: invoices, claims, contracts, customer emails. We use frontier LLMs to turn all of that into structured data that automations and AI agents can act on. You'll be building the product that does it: the ingestion and extraction pipelines, the APIs customers build their operations on top of, and the systems that make those models useful, fast and trustworthy at enterprise scale. Increasingly that work is agentic. What you build is what lets AI agents ingest, understand, retrieve and reason over enterprise documents at volume, without giving up accuracy, security or governance. It's a product engineering role with complex systems and LLM-in-production problems underneath it. The same service handles a customer's first ten documents and another's ten million, runs in our cloud and inside a bank's own air-gapped datacentre, and has to be good enough that a business will act on its output. Knowing how well the models are actually doing, and what to do when the answer is "not well enough", is a large part of the job. You'll write in several languages here, and pick up new ones as the problem demands. We care much more about how you think than about what you've written it in. We're looking for someone who loves building things, learns fast, and wants to own product outcomes rather than tickets. ## What you'll do at UiPath - Work with engineers, product managers and customers to design, build and operate the AI systems behind UiPath's document processing products. - Build across the pipeline: ingestion, parsing and extraction, indexing and retrieval, and the evaluation that tells us any of it is working. - Take features from idea to production and stay with them, measuring whether they actually worked, and improving them when they didn't. - Solve genuinely hard problems in concurrency, latency and distributed systems, so the platform holds up under high-volume production workloads. - Build for environments we don't control: multi-cloud, on-premises, air-gapped, and under strict security and compliance requirements. - Use coding agents as a serious part of your toolkit, and help the team get better at it. Where to trust them, where not to, and how to keep quality high as the tooling changes underneath us. - Work with teams across UiPath and across locations to innovate and build best-in-class document processing, and occasionally with customers directly. Because the fastest way to understand a product is to watch someone use it. - Contribute to our engineering culture: mentor, review, hire, and push back when something isn't good enough. ## What you'll bring to the team - A solid track record (7+ years) building and operating large-scale commercial services that real customers depend on. - Strong programming ability and the confidence to pick up whatever language a problem calls for. You'll meet Python, Rust and C# here, but we don't expect you to arrive knowing them all. - Real-world experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP) and containerised deployment on Kubernetes. You understand how production systems get shipped, monitored and scaled, not just written. - Comfort with data at scale: SQL, and the trade-offs between different storage and search systems. - Experience working with coding agents, and opinions about them, What responsible use looks like, where they earn their keep and where they cost you, and how you keep evaluating them in an ecosystem that changes every few months. - An appreciation for tools that catch bugs before runtime — type systems, tests, and designs that make bad states unrepresentable. Especially in the age of coding agents. - A pragmatic grasp of computer science fundamentals. We care about solving real problems with the right data structure, not reciting one from a textbook. - Experience shipping LLM-backed products to production is a strong plus: prompting, evaluation, and everything else that turns a model into a feature people will trust. - Familiarity with document processing is a plus: OCR, layout, and the messy reality of documents as they actually arrive. - An opinion on what makes good code and good architecture, and the ability to argue it, including against us. - You're a builder and a problem-solver at heart. Maybe you don’t tick all the boxes above—but still think you’d be great for the job? Go ahead, apply anyway. Please. Because we know that experience comes in all shapes and sizes—and passion can’t be learned. Many of our roles allow for flexibility in when and where work gets done. Depending on the needs of the business and the role, the number of hybrid, office-based, and remote workers will vary from team to team. Applications are assessed on a rolling basis and there is no fixed deadline for this requisition. The application window may change depending on the volume of applications received or may close immediately if a qualified candidate is selected. We value a range of diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas. We pride ourselves on our diversity and inclusive workplace that provides equal opportunities to all persons regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression, national origin, disability, neurodiversity, military and/or veteran status, or any other protected classes. Additionally, UiPath provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights. To review these and other legal disclosures, visit our [privacy policy](https://www.uipath.com/legal/trust-and-security/privacy-policy). ## About UiPath ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: UiPath provides an enterprise AI-powered automation platform that enables AI agents, robots, people, and models to work together to orchestrate complex business processes. - **Entity Type**: Public (ticker: PATH) - **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (incorporated in Delaware; global operations) - **Founded**: 2005 (in Bucharest, Romania) - **Founders**: Not explicitly named in provided sources (co-founders widely known as Daniel Dines and Marius Tirca, but not verifiable from the given search results) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Enterprise software – Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Agentic AI, Intelligent Document Processing, Business Process Automation. - **Target customers**: B2B – large enterprises and governments across banking, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, retail, public sector, and more. - **Mission/purpose**: “Accelerate human achievement by shaping the future of work” and “make work more meaningful through automation.” ## Products & Services - **UiPath Platform™**: An integrated suite that combines RPA, API automation, AI agents, document understanding, process mining, and orchestration into a single, governed platform. Deployed via SaaS (Automation Cloud™) or on-premises. - **Enterprise Agent Builder**: Low‑code/pro‑code tool to create, customize, and deploy autonomous AI agents that plan, reason, and act. - **UiPath Maestro™**: Orchestration layer that manages tasks across agents, robots, and people, enabling end‑to‑end process automation with governance and monitoring. - **Automation Cloud™**: Multi‑tenant SaaS version of the platform for rapid deployment without infrastructure overhead. - **Intelligent Xtraction & Processing (IXP)**: Document understanding product that extracts structured/unstructured data from documents to power AI agents and automations. - **UiPath Test Cloud**: Agentic testing platform for enterprise software quality assurance, with self‑healing automation and AI‑assisted test creation. - **Process Intelligence**: Process mining and task mining to identify automation opportunities, simulate changes, and monitor performance. - **Vertical Solutions**: Pre‑built, packaged automation solutions for industries (e.g., medical records summarization, loan quality control, quote generation) to deliver value in weeks. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not explicitly stated in provided sources; as a public company, market cap fluctuates (see SEC filings). - **Key Metric**: Over 10,800 customers as of July 31, 2023 (latest figure in provided content); 10,747 customers as of January 31, 2026. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not detailed in provided sources (early investors include Accel, CapitalG, etc.). - **Growth Signals**: - 3,981 full‑time employees as of January 31, 2026. - 7‑time Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Robotic Process Automation. - Recognized as a Leader in IDC MarketScape (Business Automation Platforms 2025) and Forrester Wave™ (Document Mining & Analytics Platforms Q2 2024). - Recent acquisitions: Peak (March 2025, AI pricing/inventory for manufacturing & retail) and WorkFusion (February 2026, AI agents for financial crimes compliance). - Grid Leader Fall 2025 for Business Automation Platforms, Agentic AI, AI Agent Builders. - Over 3 million developers using AI at work. ## Competitive Advantages - **Unified agentic automation**: Only platform that tightly combines AI agents, RPA, API integrations, and document understanding in one governed environment. - **Centralized governance & security**: AI Trust Layer, role‑based access, real‑time audit logs, and customer‑managed LLM support – enabling safe enterprise‑wide AI deployment. - **Vendor‑agnostic orchestration**: Maestro integrates with any agent or automation tool, avoiding lock‑in. - **Strong analyst recognition**: Consistently ranked as a Leader by Gartner, Forrester, Everest Group, and IDC across multiple categories. - **Scalable deployment**: SaaS, on‑premises, hybrid – with full flexibility for regulated industries. ## Strategic Focus - **Agentic automation**: Shifting from rule‑based RPA to AI agents that think, plan, and act autonomously – the central theme of their 25.10 platform release. - **Vertical expansion**: Pre‑built solutions for financial services, healthcare, insurance, supply chain, and manufacturing to accelerate time‑to‑value. - **Acquisitions**: Continuing to buy niche AI and automation companies (Peak, WorkFusion) to broaden capabilities in pricing, compliance, and vertical intelligence. - **R&D investment**: Significant ongoing investment in AI, agent builder, and governance features. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values of **Bold** (speak up, think big), **Immersed** (dive deep, customer‑centric), **Fast** (agility, simplicity, results), and **Humble** (open mind, kindness, team player). - **Work flexibility**: Hybrid, remote, or office‑based roles; hybrid teams are expected onsite at least two days per week. - **Growth & development**: “Failing forward” mindset – encouraged to take smart risks and learn from mistakes. Opportunities in Engineering, Product, Sales, etc. - **Diversity & belonging**: Committed to fair opportunity, inclusive workplace, and celebrating uniqueness. - **Impact**: Pledge 1% member – donated 1.1M shares to ESG initiatives. Focus on “automation for good” in communities and the environment. - **Perks**: Recognized as a great workplace; emphasis on employee well‑being and professional growth through programs like the Future Forward Internship. - **Global community**: Diverse team across 100+ customer countries with a strong connection to Bucharest roots. ## Sources 1. [uipath.com/about-us](https://www.uipath.com/about-us) 2. [uipath.com/careers](https://www.uipath.com/careers) 3. [uipath.com/](https://www.uipath.com/) 4. [uipath.com/careers/jobs](https://www.uipath.com/careers/jobs) 5. 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