Event Driven Software Engineer

£650 - £675 per day (Inside IR35)
Contract
Hybrid / Sheffield
Ref - 1702120

• Overview

  Event Driven SME Software Engineer

  Contract: Inside IR35
  Location: Sheffield – 2–3 days per week

  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.

• Competences

  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.

  To arrange an immediate interview, please contact Ryan West today

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