Software Engineer (Backend)

Join our Segments & Propositions Relationships Lab in Bristol as a Software Engineer (Backend). You will be responsible for designing and refining system architecture, database design, and coding using backend technologies. You will also have the opportunity to work with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and Linux OS. Enjoy a generous holiday allowance, flexible working options, family leave, health insurance, colleague offers, financial products, share plans, and a pension plan.

- Designing / refining system architecture
- Database design: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra)
- Using cloud platforms and technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure etc)
- Kubernetes and Linux OS
- Exposure to continuous integration pipeline and test automation
- Gradle/Maven
- Code using backend technologies (Java 8+ , Spring Ecosystem )
- Integration with external services (SOAP, REST, GraphQL)
- Test automation: BDD/Playwright/Cyprus/COESF
- Exposure to public cloud infrastructure
- Second programming language
- And any experience of these would be really useful:
- Distributed and scalable applications principles
- Building RESTful services or Web UI
- Exposure to Kotlin, iOS, Android, Flutter or Rust
- Experience with Hibernate ORM
- Understanding of networking principles, tools and equipment
- Exposure Linux system admin tools
- Exposure to Quarkus
- Exposure to Go
- Exposure with Python and Big Data technologies including ML