Lead Back End Developer - Contract role - London
A growing, data-driven organisation is looking for a Lead Back End Developer to shape and deliver the services that sit at the heart of its platform.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and build of scalable, secure back end services and APIs
- Own the architecture of event-driven pipelines built on Kafka
- Set engineering standards across code quality, testing, CI/CD and documentation
- Mentor developers, run code reviews and guide technical decisions
- Work with product and data teams to turn requirements into reliable services
- Make sure systems meet security and data protection expectations
- Monitor, troubleshoot and improve performance and reliability in production
Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial back end experience in Python, C#/.NET or a comparable language
- Proven experience designing, building and versioning APIs (REST, and ideally gRPC or GraphQL)
- Hands-on Kafka experience, including topic design, producers and consumers, and stream processing
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers, or acting as a technical lead
- Solid knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases
- Experience with a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
Details
£650 - £750 P/D (Inside IR35)
Hybrid role - 2 days P/W onsite
Initial 6 Month contract
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