Senior Java Engineer

Brandwatch, a Cision product, empowers over 5,000 of the world’s most admired companies to understand and engage with customers at the speed of social. 

Combining pioneering, AI-enriched digital consumer intelligence with industry-leading social media management tools, Brandwatch offers a complementary suite of specialized, best-in-class products and services that support intelligently connected workflows. With Brandwatch, brands and agencies can adapt and thrive in today’s fast moving digital world by making smarter decisions and executing data-driven social strategies at every customer touchpoint.

Operating and serving clients the world over, Brandwatch has 17 offices across the globe and more than 1,000 employees worldwide.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work within the team that builds, monitors and maintains the high-volume data processing and storage platform at the heart of some of our core products.

Together with the other developers on the team and our product manager, you would build new platform functionality and optimise system performance to handle the billions of records we process each day. 

What you’ll do:

• Work with our infrastructure and application teams to grow and evolve the core data processing and storage systems of our platform 
• Work with the product manager and engineering lead in an agile team, translating requirements into technical solutions 
• Build RESTful APIs in Java with Spring Framework and PostgreSQL to support the business logic of our applications 
• Build high-volume data processing pipelines, full-text search and analytics APIs using Kafka, Lucene and Solr to support our core product functionality 
• Monitor performance of our systems, propose and implement optimisations 
• Help with hiring, training, onboarding and mentoring of team members 

What you have:

• Extensive professional experience with Java 
• Hands-on experience with SQL database design and implementation 
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and build automation systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins CI) 
• Experience working in horizontally scaled, data-intensive environments 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Great numerical and analytical skills 
• Knowledge of service-oriented architecture, big data systems, and distributed computing 
• Comfortable with Unix/Linux operating systems and command line environments 

Nice to have:

• Professional experience with high-throughput data ingestion queuing/streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.) 
• Experience working with PostgreSQL in performance-sensitive deployments 
• Knowledge of Lucene, Elasticsearch/Solr, NoSQL databases 
• Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, GCP etc. 

What we offer:

• Holiday - 25 days holiday and 4 Wellness days per year to encourage a healthy work-life balance!
• Possibility to work fully remote
• Health cash plan employer paid at level 3. (Option to upgrade plan to level 4,5 or 6 + add family members at employee’s expense); Group life assurance - employer paid
• Sports benefit - gym/sport membership contribution - 50% or up to 25 GBP per month employer contribution
• Cycle to work; Employee discounts platform - through Reward Gateway
• Dental insurance - preference premiums at employee’s cost + option to add family members
• Employee assistance plan (EAP) & Full Calm subscription
• Maternity/parental leave policy & Sabbatical leave policy

Please note that this position is only available to candidates who are currently residing in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, we are unable to consider applicants outside the country.

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If you’ve found our job opportunity interesting but you don’t meet all of the requirements, it’s still worth applying. We’d love to hear from you!

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