Senior Java Developer

Global technology & software product company operating in the observability and monitoring space, is looking for a Senior Java Software Engineer to join their Platform Team in London
. You'll help build the distributed services that sit at the core of their product, ingesting and transforming data at scale so it can power a range of analytics and monitoring tools used by customers around the world.

Location:

London (Old Street / Shoreditch). Salary: £90K - £110K basic
, plus an extensive benefits package. Working arrangement:
hybrid, ideally 2 days per week in the office, with flexibility considered.

• Design and build distributed services from the ground up, working with core Java rather than solely relying on heavy framework usage.
• Develop event-driven systems using Kafka and event-streaming frameworks at scale
• Orchestrate deployments on Kubernetes
  , defining services, deployments and stateful sets
• Tackle hard problems around data consistency and availability, and shape how the platform evolves
• Mentor other engineers while continuing to learn from senior peers across a global team

• At least 7 years' experience as a backend Java developer, building complex distributed systems
• A deep understanding of core Java, data structures and concurrency, not just framework knowledge
• Hands-on experience with Kafka and event-streaming frameworks such as Flink, Kafka Streams or Spark
• Practical Kubernetes experience, including troubleshooting production issues
• Experience tuning JVM performance - garbage collection, CPU hotspots and heap dump analysis

• Genuine ownership - you’ll take on your own piece of the product within 90 days, backed by a supportive team
• A strong learning culture, with a structured onboarding plan and an ambitious L&D policy behind you
• An extensive benefits package covering health, dental, pension, life assurance and more

If you’re a backend-focused Java engineer who enjoys solving hard distributed systems problems and wants to work on technology used at global scale
, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today to find out more about this opportunity.