Staff Engineer

Salary: £50,400 – 55,200 per year

Requirements

• 10–15+ years building large-scale backend systems
• Strong Java, Spring Boot (or Micronaut/Quarkus), and JVM expertise
• Deep experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and performance engineering
• Hands‑on experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Pulsar
• Strong API design and event‑driven architecture experience
• Solid SQL/NoSQL, caching, and data modelling knowledge
• Azure cloud experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• CI/CD using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins (desirable)
• Automated testing frameworks (desirable)
• Observability tools (Dynatrace, ELK, OpenTelemetry) (desirable)

Responsibilities

• Define and drive backend technical strategy and architecture
• Design scalable, fault‑tolerant, event‑driven, and cloud‑native systems
• Lead multi‑team engineering initiatives and complex system designs
• Build and optimise Java (Java 17+) backend services using Spring Boot or Micronaut
• Design RESTful APIs, messaging systems, and microservices
• Own performance, reliability, security, monitoring, and observability
• Lead system design sessions, architecture reviews, and technical decision‑making
• Champion engineering standards, CI/CD, testing, automation, and DevEx
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with Product, DevOps, SRE, and Architecture teams
• Participate in on‑call support as required

Technologies

• API
• Azure
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• Dynatrace
• ELK
• GitHub
• Support
• JVM
• Java
• Jenkins
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• NoSQL
• OpenTelemetry
• Quarkus
• RabbitMQ
• SQL
• Security
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• microservices

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We are seeking a Staff Engineer to provide hands‑on technical leadership across highly scalable, cloud‑native backend systems in our London office. This is a hybrid role, requiring 2 days per week onsite. As part of a collaborative team, you will have the opportunity to shape architecture, lead complex initiatives, and mentor engineers. We value technical depth and leadership, and we offer a competitive contract rate of £420 – £460 per day inside IR35 for an initial duration of 6 to 12 months.

last updated 25 week of 2026

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