Lead Software Engineer – Observability Event Alert UK – Java Full Stack

Overview

In this Lead Software Engineer role, you will drive a modernization of firmwide alerting and event-routing, migrating from a legacy monolith to a cloud-native microservices platform. You’ll partner with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient, scalable systems and an AI-powered monitoring tool for intelligent event enrichment and root-cause analysis. You’ll shape architecture, guide engineers, and raise standards across the SDLC. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence enterprise observability and delivery velocity.

Pay / Benefits

• comprehensive health care coverage
• retirement savings plan
• tuition reimbursement
• mental health support
• on-site health and wellness centers
• backup childcare

Responsibilities

• Lead migration from legacy monolith to containerized microservices (Java/Spring Boot); plan decomposition, domain modeling, and data migration
• Re-architect infrastructure for multi-AZ/region, autoscaling, HA/DR
• Develop end-to-end features and APIs (REST/GraphQL) in Java/Spring Boot; contribute to ops UIs as needed
• Design and implement event-driven systems and streaming alerting (Kafka); ensure robust topics and consumer strategies
• Build secure, production-quality services; review and raise engineering standards
• Improve performance, resiliency, and scalability of alerting/event routing; instrument SLOs/SLIs; optimize latency/throughput
• Collaborate with product, SRE, operations, and controls to drive adoption and incident response
• Explore AI for Ops with partners; drive POCs and data-driven adoption
• Lead architecture discussions with internal teams and vendors; promote modern engineering practices
• Contribute to communities of practice and foster inclusive team culture
• Advance AI-assisted engineering practices with validated standards and reusable patterns
• Apply SDLC tools and enterprise AI-assisted development/automation to improve automation value

Key requirements

• Significant senior software engineering experience with cross-team leadership
• Hands-on system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for distributed systems
• Advanced Java and microservices with Spring Boot; strong system design skills
• Backend-focused with ability to contribute across UI when needed
• Automation and CI/CD experience
• SDLC proficiency across requirements, design, coding, testing, deployment, support
• Advanced understanding of agile methods, CI/CD, resiliency, and security
• Cloud-native experience deploying containerized microservices in cloud
• Working knowledge of Oracle relational databases
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
• Strong focus on responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure handling, resiliency, and security compliance
• Mentoring engineers, design reviews, and establishing engineering standards

• Effective cross-team collaboration
• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Mentorship and coaching
• Java/Spring Boot
• Microservices architecture
• CI/CD pipelines

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