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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Quantexa
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £72,449.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Big Data, Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (Software Development), Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Transformation, Elasticsearch, Apache Hadoop, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Operational Databases, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Data Streaming, Systems Architecture, Apache Spark, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Functional Programming, Event Sourcing, Data Pipelines, Microservices
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5834872637

## About the Role

* A passion for designing, building and delivering high-quality, well-engineered software solutions to complex technical problems.
 * The ability to take a big-picture approach, ensuring solutions work effectively within a wider system architecture.
 * Strong commercial experience developing scalable backend applications in JVM languages, such as Scala, Java or similar.
 * An interest in functional programming concepts and a willingness to learn and work with Scala if you have not used it extensively before.
 * Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative approach to software development.

 * Experience with Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch or similar platforms.
 * Building distributed, scalable backend systems and microservice-based architectures.
 * Experience with functional programming concepts and frameworks.
 * Building production data processing pipelines, including ETL, streaming or analytics workloads.
 * Working with event-driven architectures, event sourcing or CQRS patterns.
 * Data transformation, cleansing, parsing and standardisation, with a focus on improving data quality and integrity.
 * Experience with cloud platforms and modern DevOps tooling.



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