Staff Data Platform Engineer: Streaming Platform Leader

Checkout Ltd; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - GBP 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company is looking for a Staff Data Platform Engineer in London. The role involves building a scalable event streaming platform using technologies like Kafka and Flink. Candidates should have a strong engineering background, experience with cloud technologies, and proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or C#. The position offers a hybrid working model with flexibility and collaboration opportunities.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills with a proven track record of influencing engineering organisations.
• Hands-on experience with stream technologies, primarily Kafka.
• Experience designing and implementing stream processing applications with Flink.

Responsibilities

• Work with streaming technologies to build a large-scale event streaming platform.
• Provide leadership and mentoring across the organisation.
• Build tooling and documentation for the streaming platform.

Skills

Event streaming platforms

Kafka

Flink

Cloud technologies (AWS)

Kubernetes

SQL databases

Docker

Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

CI/CD pipelines

Programming (Java, Python, C#)

Job description

A leading fintech company is looking for a Staff Data Platform Engineer in London. The role involves building a scalable event streaming platform using technologies like Kafka and Flink. Candidates should have a strong engineering background, experience with cloud technologies, and proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or C#. The position offers a hybrid working model with flexibility and collaboration opportunities.