Senior Full Stack/Native Cloud Engineer (Vice President)

Overview

As a Senior Full Stack / Native Cloud Engineer at VP level in Jefferies’ London Technology team, you will design and deliver cloud-native, data-driven platforms for front-office workflows. You lead end-to-end delivery, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders to build scalable, resilient systems. You work across backend, data pipelines, and frontend to ship high-impact solutions. This role offers influence on platform architecture and hands-on leadership within a global, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and delivery of backend services and platform components (Java 8+/Spring Boot, Python/FastAPI)
• Build and operate event-driven real-time data pipelines using Kafka
• Architect distributed systems and scalable platforms
• Design and maintain Java-based APIs and microservices (REST, OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC)
• Work with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Amazon Redshift
• Deliver responsive UIs with Angular or React
• Own solutions end-to-end from design to deployment and support
• Promote engineering best practices (testing, CI/CD, observability)
• Mentor junior/mid engineers and set technical standards
• Identify and scope complex technical challenges with minimal direction
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into robust solutions
• Optimize performance, scalability, resiliency, and low-latency operation
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and continuous delivery improvements
• Collaborate with globally distributed teams to ensure architecture consistency
• Support production systems with root-cause analysis and improvements

Key requirements

• Strong backend engineering with Java 8+ and Spring Boot, microservices
• Strong Python development with FastAPI or similar
• Experience building cloud-native, distributed, scalable systems
• Hands-on Kafka or equivalent streaming tech
• API design with REST, OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC
• Relational and NoSQL data platforms (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redshift)
• Frontend experience with Angular or React
• Good knowledge of CI/CD, testing, observability, secure development
• Production deployment and operations in cloud/hybrid environments
• Leadership in technical delivery and architecture decisions
• Strong analytical problem-solving and independent work ability
• Excellent communication with technical and business stakeholders

• strong communication
• leadership and mentoring
• stakeholder engagement
• Java 8+/Spring Boot
• Python/FastAPI
• Kafka

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