Lead Backend Engineer
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Summary
Six-month contract (£650–750/day inside IR35) for a Lead Backend Engineer at a data-driven London organisation, hybrid with two onsite days per week. Leads and mentors a team while staying hands-on, owning Kafka event-driven pipelines, APIs, and a flexible Python/C#/.NET stack on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Salary: £? - ? per year Requirements: Strong commercial back-end development experience in Python, C#/.NET, or a comparable language Proven experience designing, building, and versioning APIs, including REST and ideally gRPC or GraphQL Hands-on Kafka experience, including topic design, producers and consumers, and stream processing Experience leading or mentoring engineers, or serving as a technical lead Solid knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases Experience with a major cloud platform (A…