Platform & Data Engineer (Financial Services)

Salary: £74,000 - 97,000 per year

Requirements:

• 5 years of commercial software engineering experience • Strong backend development experience in Java and Spring environments • Experience working with Python and/or the Microsoft technology ecosystem • Strong understanding of distributed systems and scalable application design • Experience designing modular applications, services or microservice-based architectures • Strong knowledge of software engineering principles, design patterns and clean code practices • Experience with automated testing across unit, integration and end-to-end environments • Good understanding of CI/CD, automated deployment and modern software delivery practices • Experience with event-driven architectures, messaging or streaming technologies such as Kafka • Exposure to high-volume data processing or distributed data platforms • Strong SQL and relational database experience • Experience supporting highly available, business-critical production systems • Comfortable investigating performance, reliability and production issues • Able to work independently while collaborating across technical and non-technical teams • Experience mentoring or providing technical guidance to other engineers • A degree in computer science, engineering or a related discipline is advantageous

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop backend applications, services and data-driven platforms • Build and enhance distributed systems handling high volumes of data • Assess…