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 test...