RabbitMQ Expert

Senior Message Streaming Engineer

Location: Remote/Hybrid within the UK

Salary: £75,000 + 15% Bonus

We’re partnering with a fast-moving, tech-led business to headhunt a hands-on expert in Message Streaming. This is a high-impact role with real ownership — perfect for someone who thrives in complex environments and wants to step into an architectural path.

If you live and breathe distributed systems and have a deep understanding of Java, AWS, and specifically RabbitMQ, this one’s for you.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Taking full ownership of the message streaming platform across the business.
• Supporting performance at scale, tackling bottlenecks, and designing for resilience.
• Being the go-to technical expert for all things RabbitMQ—this is your domain.
• Ensuring uptime and reliability of core streaming systems (you’ll be on-call when it matters).
• Working alongside a forward-thinking developer team, embedded in a fast-paced logistics environment.
• Helping modernize and evolve over 1000+ codebases, identifying and resolving key service challenges.

What We’re Looking For:

• Hands-on expertise with RabbitMQ.
• Java software development experience (Preference Spring)
• Direct experience with accountability over Message Streaming Environments
• Comfortable taking full responsbility of the full message streaming services.
• Strong engineering mindset with a focus on clean, scalable architecture.

This role offers real technical ownership in a business where engineering is taken seriously. You’ll be solving deep problems, working with smart people, and shaping the backbone of a mission-critical system.