Lead Software Engineer Java Kafka Open To Remote Job In London

Job Description

Lead Software Engineer - Java & Kafka (Open to Remote)

As a Senior Engineer, you will be joining our growing Platform Services teams where you’ll be working with a highly skilled team that has been dealing with modern software architecture in high-throughput environments. You can expect exciting challenges in this rapidly evolving area.

• You will be a member of the Platform Services team, which means that you are familiar with or be up to the challenge to work with many different technologies and become a mentor for less seasoned engineers.
• Create and maintain distributed high-throughput applications with technologies with different technologies like based on JVM, like Java or Kotlin, this includes building GraphQL APIs.
• Create and maintain real-time processing services with KStream on top of one of the biggest Kafka clusters in the world, with powerful search capabilities running a fault-tolerant Elasticsearch cluster.
• Ensure architectural direction with a high degree of innovation and creativity.
• Be an evangelist and mentor for best practices among engineers inside and outside the team.

Must-have:

• You have a high level of expertise developing, shipping, and maintaining high throughput Java services. Experience with Kotlin is a plus.
• You’re an expert working with REST APIs and GraphQL APIs (deep understanding of HTTP, pagination, request retrial, …)
• You’re very comfortable with asynchronous programming techniques: streams, event-based flows, task queues, message queues.
• You’re well versed in common distributed systems patterns like back-pressure, circuit breaks, or bulkheads.
• You have a collaborative work style that includes colleagues in important decisions and leads to shared code ownership.
• You have great teammate skills.

Nice-to-have:

• You’re passionate about the whole stack a complex modern application requires.
• You’re very interested in learning new languages, platforms, and ideas.
• You understand the value that builds and test automation brings to a development team's efficiency and reliability and are passionate about applying these techniques to your projects.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment focused on delivering production code at a regular cadence using Agile techniques, tools, and methodologies.
• Bonus points if you have experience with Elasticsearch, and/or Graph databases.
• Bonus points for being an Open source contributor and/or speaking Spanish.

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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