Senior Backend Engineer – Microservices & Kafka

Infoplus Technologies UK Limited; Burgess Hill; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Infoplus Technologies UK Limited is seeking an experienced Server-side Engineer to design, build and operate scalable backend systems. You will own microservices, REST APIs and data access across SQL and NoSQL platforms in production.

The role emphasizes distributed architectures, event-driven design with Kafka, and strong CI/CD discipline, performance tuning, and production support in a UK-based environment.

Qualifications

• Proven backend development experience with scalable microservices.
• Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases and performance tuning.
• Experience with CI/CD and production support.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate scalable server-side applications and microservices.
• Build REST APIs and event-driven solutions using Apache Kafka.
• Make architecture decisions across microservices, REST/GraphQL, synchronous and event-driven systems.
• Work with SQL and NoSQL databases, optimizing queries and performance.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis and performance optimization.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

REST APIs

Apache Kafka

Distributed microservices

Tools

PostgreSQL

Oracle

MySQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

DynamoDB

Job description

Infoplus Technologies UK Limited is seeking an experienced Server-side Engineer to design, build and operate scalable backend systems. You will own microservices, REST APIs and data access across SQL and NoSQL platforms in production.

The role emphasizes distributed architectures, event-driven design with Kafka, and strong CI/CD discipline, performance tuning, and production support in a UK-based environment.