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Back End Developer
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Backend Engineer
Location: Sheffield, UK
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer with 8+ years of experience to join our engineering team in Sheffield. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Java, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Cloud technologies, with hands-on experience designing scalable, cloud-native platforms.
This role involves leading the design and delivery of platform solutions, driving production excellence, improving developer experience, and mentoring engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend platform solutions using Java.
- Build and support cloud-native microservices architectures.
- Drive Platform Engineering initiatives to improve developer productivity and platform capabilities.
- Implement DevOps best practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, availability, and production performance using SRE principles.
- Implement observability solutions including monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver high-quality software.
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices across the team.
- Participate in architectural discussions and technical decision-making.
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Required Skills
- 8+ years of backend software engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java.
- Solid experience in Platform Engineering.
- Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD.
- Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
- Hands-on experience building Microservices.
- Experience with Observability tools and practices (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Datadog, Splunk, New Relic).
- Experience with Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of modern frontend frameworks such as Angular or React.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
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Preferred Skills
- Experience designing enterprise-scale distributed systems.
- Production support and operational excellence experience.
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
- Event-driven architectures and messaging technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
- Experience mentoring developers and leading technical initiatives.
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