Senior Software Engineer, Big Data in UNITED KINGDOM

Seeking an exceptional Software Developer with experience researching, designing and developing Data Streaming and Event-Driven systems in London. Candidates must have direct expertise and a track record in designing and developing sophisticated distributed data-intensive systems. Visa sponsorship and relocation are not available.

Compensation: £150k-£200k base salary. 100%+ annual bonus. 10% pension and stacked benefits package. Four days in the office.. Sign-on and guaranteed comp are available for suitable candidates.

Why?

• Design and own a critical piece of technology directly impacting the firm's revenue and profits.
• Research new technologies that could be implemented into the stack.
• Contribute to architectural design.
• Working on sophisticated real-time data streaming systems at scale.
• Building relationships with senior business stakeholders directly.
• Become integral to the firm's future data needs.

About the role

• Design, development, and implementation of Big Data Streaming and Event Driven applications
• Develop and own core tools, frameworks, and methodologies, emphasizing scale, reusability, and simplicity.
• Work on high-profile projects using cutting-edge technologies
• Research and deploy evolving technology into the stack

Expertise expectation

• Minimum 5+ years of industry experience.
• Expert in at least one statically typed language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Scala, Rust), interest in functional programming, concurrent programming, etc
• Passionate about data and working on data streaming projects using Flink, Kafka Streams
• Expert with distributed messaging technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis
• Experience working with Big Data technologies Spark, Hadoop, Ignite
• Demonstrable passion for researching and learning new technology and languages
• Proficient with cloud, container, and microservice infrastructures Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
• Excellent academic track record in Computer Science, Engineering or similar.
• Good job tenure track record with a demonstrable history of seeing large projects from inception to completion.