Principal Engineer: Cloud-Native Java & Microservices

Bourne Search Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bourne Search Ltd. is seeking a Principal Engineer to drive technical direction and architecture for complex software platforms at a major metals trading exchange.

You will lead hands-on engineering, mentor teams, and shape security, scalability and reliability while delivering business-critical capabilities. The role requires deep experience with Java, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures (Kafka) and cloud-native development using Kubernetes, plus strong DevOps practices and

Skills

Java

Microservices

APIs

Kafka

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

DevOps

CI/CD

Security by design

SRE

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

Elastic

Job description

Bourne Search Ltd. is seeking a Principal Engineer to drive technical direction and architecture for complex software platforms at a major metals trading exchange.

You will lead hands-on engineering, mentor teams, and shape security, scalability and reliability while delivering business-critical capabilities. The role requires deep experience with Java, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures (Kafka) and cloud-native development using Kubernetes, plus strong DevOps practices and