Backend & Distributed Data Platform Engineer

Viridien; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Pension

Private medical

Wellbeing app

Discount platform

Job summary

Viridien is seeking a Software Developer for Data Platform & Distributed Systems to design and develop a distributed, microservices-based platform for data cataloguing, metadata management, and high-volume workflows. You will work across the backend stack, building scalable services and APIs on a Kubernetes-driven platform using MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, and Go.

You will join a team delivering high-performance data platforms in a modern cloud-native environment, with a strong emphasis

Qualifications

• Proven experience building backend services and distributed systems.
• Strong experience with MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL.
• Solid data modelling, indexing, and query optimisation.
• Experience with messaging systems (Kafka) and caching (Redis).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong focus on scalability, performance, and maintainable code.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose complex issues.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices.
• Build robust APIs and backend services interacting with databases, messaging systems, and caching layers.
• Design efficient data models and query patterns for high read/write workloads.
• Analyse and optimise application and database performance.
• Contribute to containerisation, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes deployments.
• Support event-driven architectures using messaging systems and caching technologies.
• Participate in system design and architecture discussions.
• Ensure reliability, observability, and performance of core services.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Problem solving

High throughput

Data modelling

Tools

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

Go (Golang)

Job description

Viridien is seeking a Software Developer for Data Platform & Distributed Systems to design and develop a distributed, microservices-based platform for data cataloguing, metadata management, and high-volume workflows. You will work across the backend stack, building scalable services and APIs on a Kubernetes-driven platform using MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, and Go.

You will join a team delivering high-performance data platforms in a modern cloud-native environment, with a strong emphasis