Senior Java Developer

Salary: £90,000 - 110,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for a Senior Java Software Engineer with at least 7 years of experience as a backend Java developer building complex distributed systems.
• We need strong knowledge of core Java, data structures, and concurrency, not just framework familiarity.
• We require hands-on experience with Kafka and event-streaming frameworks such as Flink, Kafka Streams, or Spark.
• We need practical Kubernetes experience, including troubleshooting production issues.
• We are looking for experience tuning JVM performance, including garbage collection, CPU hotspots, and heap dump analysis.

Responsibilities:

• We design and build distributed services from the ground up, working primarily with core Java.
• We develop event-driven systems using Kafka and event-streaming frameworks at scale.
• We orchestrate deployments on Kubernetes, defining services, deployments, and stateful sets.
• We tackle challenges around data consistency and availability and help shape how the platform evolves.
• We mentor other engineers while learning from senior peers across a global team.

Technologies:

• Backend
• Flink
• JVM
• Java
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Spark

More:

We are a global technology and software product company operating in the observability and monitoring space. We are hiring for our Platform Team in London, based near Old Street / Shoreditch, with a hybrid working arrangement of ideally two days per week in the office and flexibility considered. We offer a salary of £90K to £110K basic plus an extensive benefits package, including health, dental, pension, life assurance, and more. We provide genuine ownership, a structured onboarding plan, and a strong learning culture supported by an ambitious L&D policy.

last updated 33 week of 2026