This role requires hands-on experience in developing enterprise-grade backend applications that capture, process, transform, and distribute real-time data across multiple systems while ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance
Required Experience
* 8+ years of backend application development experience using Java.
* Experience building ultra-low-latency systems (<100ms processing latency).
* Experience handling systems processing millions of events/transactions daily.
* Real-time data synchronization across multiple platforms.
* Strong expertise in low-latency application design and performance optimization.
* Proven experience with Kafka, event streaming, and asynchronous architectures.
* Experience implementing Change Data Capture (CDC) solutions using Debezium or similar technologies.
* Experience with cloud-native application development.
Your responsibilities:
* Design and develop highly scalable, low-latency, fault-tolerant backend applications using Java.
* Build real-time data processing solutions for high-volume transactional systems.
* Develop event-driven architectures using messaging and streaming technologies.
* Design and implement microservices-based applications using Spring Boot.
* Optimize application performance through profiling, tuning, and efficient resource utilization.
* Develop APIs and backend services supporting sub-second response times.
* Architect distributed systems with high throughput and minimal latency.
* Implement resilient systems using caching, asynchronous processing, and circuit breaker patterns.
* Perform code reviews and enforce engineering best practices.
* Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis.
Your Profile
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
* Strong experience in Java 17+
* Solid experience with Spring Boot, Microservices
* Experience in working with Dynatrance, Splunk, Grafana
* Expertise in Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect
* Expertise in Change Data Capture (CDC) solutions using Debezium or similar technologies.
* Real Time Streaming & Event-Driven architectures
* Performance engineering concurrency & JVM tuning
* SQL & Data Engineering Fundamentals
* Kubernetes, Docker & CI/CD Pipelines
* Cloud Platform Experience (Azure, Aws, Google)
* Experience in Latency analysis and optimization
* Excellent English communication skills
Salary description
£500.00 - £550.00 per day