Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer-Platform Services to drive our core platform ecosystem. In this role, you will drive technical excellence across dual-stack (Node.js/TypeScript and Java/Kotlin) distributed systems., * Own and operate platform services that include customer and developer portals and centralised document management plus other cross-cutting services

• Lead architectural decisions across the platform
• Mentor engineers and drive technical quality, * Maintain and evolve engineering standards, shared libraries, service templates, API/event specifications, and Kafka integration patterns
• Own performance and reliability: distributed tracing, benchmarks, latency optimisation, incident response
• Continue Keycloak migration and identity infrastructure work
• Lead development of developer portal and internal tooling

• 10+ years backend engineering with distributed systems at scale
• Strong in Node.js/TypeScript and Java/Kotlin
• Kafka and event-driven architecture
• AWS, Kubernetes, Docker in production
• Postgres, Elasticsearch; observability tooling (Datadog, Elastic APM)
• Financial services or other regulated/high-reliability environments, * Identity/auth experience: Keycloak or similar, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML
• Zero-downtime migration experience
• Developer experience/platform tooling (Backstage, service templates, DORA metrics)
• Technical leadership or product ownership of platform services