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Lead Software Engineer
Wal*** · London, ENG, United Kingdom
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London, ENG, United KingdomRemote
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Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
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Job summary
About the Role We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer-Platform Services to drive our core platform ecosystem. In this role, you will drive technical excellence across dual-stack ( Node.js/TypeScript and Java/Kotlin ) distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- In this role, you will drive technical excellence across dual-stack ( Node.js/TypeScript and Java/Kotlin ) distributed systems.
- Maintain and evolve engineering standards, shared libraries, service templates, API/event specifications, and Kafka integration patterns
- Own performance and reliability: distributed tracing, benchmarks, latency optimisation, incident response
- Continue Keycloak migration and identity infrastructure work
- Lead development of developer portal and internal tooling
- Required experience
- 10+ years backend engineering with distributed systems at scale
- Strong in Node.js/TypeScript and Java/Kotlin
- Kafka and event-driven architecture
- AWS, Kubernetes, Docker in production
- Postgres, Elasticsearch; observability tooling (Datadog, Elastic APM)
- Financial services or other regulated/high-reliability environments
Skills
ExcelLeadership
Industry
Banking
Company size
Smb