Senior Java Backend Engineer

About Conduktor

Real-time data is revolutionising our lives. Every business today must have data available to compete. That's why real-time data processing is the fastest-growing segment of business computing. Conduktor is a platform that sits on top of any data streaming technology, ensuring companies across the world maximise the value of their data.

Our team is distributed across London, New York, and Paris, and we are looking for people who are excited by our mission and want to share this journey with us. 

About the role

We are looking for a mission-driven and capable Engineer, who is eager to be part of our product engineering team in bringing our vision to life for our customers. On a day-to-day basis, you'll be working across our main products which are used by thousands of developers to explore their data and solve their challenges when working with Apache Kafka. We are highly collaborative and are ideally looking for someone who enjoys working with others, sharing ideas, and always looking for ways to improve their own and others' contributions. 

This is a hybrid role and we are looking for folks to join us onsite 3 times a week minimum at our London base in Holborn.

What will you be doing?

• Using this tech stack: Java, Scala, Kafka
• Ideating and implementing interesting features for our customers
• Working and collaborating with our Product team to ensure our customer experience is flawless
• Working with our front end teams (React / Typescript) using Rest, GraphQL and OpenAPI to ensure seamless integration with our UX
• Working with our Customer Success team to ensure our systems are operationally robust for the most mission critical customer requirements, and manageable at enterprise scale
• Bringing your engineering experience to improve our overall code quality, tools and processes. Actively contributing to the development of best practices within the team is important to us as we are always open to new ways of working 

What experiences are we looking for?

• You must have worked with a JVM based language, one of Java, Kotlin or Scala
• You have familiarity with Object Oriented and Functional software paradigms
• You have some familiarity with cloud based deployments and Docker / Kubernetes
• You have worked with some aspects of Apache Kafka in production
• You are naturally curious and eager to always be learning and improving. One of our core company values is “we learn”
• You’re highly collaborative, enjoy helping others in both your immediate and wider teams and actively contribute your ideas and thoughts to meetings and brainstorming sessions 
• You have excellent communication skills; we value giving feedback and contributing both verbally and in writing 
• You care about emerging trends and technologies in server-side and cloud based development

Nice to have

• As a bonus, you have a background working for a company where realtime data has been at the heart of the product. Everything we are doing revolves around data, so if you have experience and a mindset driven towards this it will be a big plus!

Compensation & Benefits

• 25 days PTO + public holidays
• Pension contribution
• Top-tier private health insurance package
• Technical equipment stipend
• Employee referral scheme
• Company-wide events and team socials

Fostering an inclusive environment is vital to us, and we want to bring people onboard who share our values. We admire those who love collaborating, strive to learn, and are excited by our mission. If you are interested in this role, we would love for you to apply! 

Conduktor is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, protected veteran, or parental status.