Lead Engineer

As a Lead Engineer, the work centres on a globally scaled technology business is looking for a Lead Engineer to take ownership of its next-generation API platform, with Kafka at the heart of the architecture. It would suit someone who can bring careful technical judgement and practical problem-solving to the role.

Known job details

• Pay: £700 per day
• Contract: Contract
• Work model: Hybrid
• Lead Engineer : Up to £700PD : Outside IR35 : Hybrid London : 3 months rolling.
• Driven microservices and API integrations.
• Owning security, observability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
• Championing TDD, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automated testing.

Likely focus of the role

• A globally scaled technology business is looking for a Lead Engineer to take ownership of its next-generation API platform, with Kafka at the heart of the architecture.
• Architecting and evolving a high-throughput, Kafka-driven event streaming platform.
• Designing cloud-native distributed systems built for scale and resilience.

Requirements mentioned

• Kafka - deep, hands-on experience is essential (topic design, consumer groups, schema registry, Kafka Streams or similar).
• TypeScript, Node.js.
• Salesforce or enterprise CRM experience is a strong advantage.