Lead Engineer

Lead Engineer : Up to £700PD : Outside IR35 : Hybrid London : 3 months rolling

A globally scaled technology business is looking for a Lead Engineer to take ownership of its next-generation API platform, with Kafka at the heart of the architecture.

Operating at significant scale, this is a hands-on engagement where you'll have real influence over the direction of a critical engineering pillar - designing and building the event-driven infrastructure that the platform depends on.

Key responsibilities as a Lead Engineer:

• Architecting and evolving a high-throughput, Kafka-driven event streaming platform
• Designing cloud-native distributed systems built for scale and resilience
• Leading the development of event-driven microservices and API integrations
• Owning security, observability, performance, and long-term maintainability
• Championing TDD, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automated testing
• Embedding AI-powered capabilities into engineering workflows

Skills and requirements:

• Kafka - deep, hands-on experience is essential (topic design, consumer groups, schema registry, Kafka Streams or similar)
• TypeScript, Node.js
• AWS (EKS, Lambda, Aurora RDS), Kubernetes
• GraphQL, Terraform, DataDog
• Salesforce or enterprise CRM experience is a strong advantage

Contract details:

• IR35: Outside IR35
• Rate: Up to £700 per day
• Contract length: 3 months rolling
• Location: London (Hybrid)
• Start date: ASAP

Apply now or reach out directly to find out more.

Due to the high volume of applications, not all applicants will receive a response.