At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a greenfield project to build high-throughput event-driven platforms.
- Company: Dynamic tech company focused on innovative cloud solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, flexible working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Hands-on role with excellent career advancement potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping the architecture of cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Experience with Kafka, Flink, and cloud engineering is essential.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Event Driven SME Software Engineer
We’re looking for an experienced Event Driven SME Software Engineer to join a greenfield project building a large-scale, high-throughput platform processing billions of cloud telemetry and log events every day.
You’ll be hands-on with the design and engineering of event-driven data ingestion and streaming capabilities, helping shape the architecture, engineering standards and testing strategy across the platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Build high-volume, event-driven data ingestion pipelines across multiple Cloud Service Providers.
- Design and engineer streaming solutions using Kafka and Flink, with Java-based services and jobs.
- Deploy and operate cloud-based services with a focus on scalability, resilience, security and observability.
- Contribute to technical architecture covering event schemas, partitioning, ordering, state, replay, retention and failure handling.
- Optimise solutions for performance and cost at significant scale.
- Establish mature automated testing across unit, integration, contract, end-to-end and performance testing.
- Work with cloud-native data collection approaches across AWS, Azure and GCP.
- Contribute to CI/CD, infrastructure automation and operational best practices.
Essential Experience
- Proven experience delivering large-scale event-driven systems in production.
- Strong hands-on Kafka experience, including partitioning, consumer groups, ordering, schema evolution, retention and replay.
- Strong hands-on Flink or equivalent stream-processing experience, including stateful processing, checkpoints, back-pressure and delivery semantics.
- Excellent software engineering skills, with strong knowledge of clean code, design patterns, microservices, TDD/BDD and performance engineering.
- Strong cloud engineering experience, ideally AWS.
- Demonstrable experience building robust automated testing strategies and driving a quality-first engineering culture.
- Strong understanding of scalability, performance, bottlenecks and cost optimisation at high volumes.
Desirable
- Multi-cloud telemetry/log collection experience across AWS, Azure and GCP.
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Strong CI/CD and automated deployment experience.
- Experience contributing to cloud/application architecture while remaining hands-on technically.
- Observability and SRE practices.
This is a genuinely hands-on SME role for someone who can make architectural decisions, write production-quality code and build platforms that are scalable, resilient, testable and cost-effective
Event Driven Software Engineer employer: Talent Smart
As a Compliance Consultant within our Quality, Risk & Internal Compliance (QRIC) team, you will thrive in a dynamic work culture that prioritises hands-on delivery and collaboration. We offer robust employee growth opportunities through practical training and workshops, ensuring you can develop your skills while making a tangible impact on our incident and crisis management processes. Located in a supportive environment, we value clear communication and teamwork, empowering you to turn complex compliance requirements into actionable strategies that enhance our operational resilience.
