Software Engineer - Backend Developer

Randstad Technologies Recruitment; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 192,864,000 - 234,192,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Technologies Recruitment in Manchester seeks a Backend Software Engineer on a 6-month contract to help scale our travel and attractions ecosystem. You will join a core engineering team focused on integrating global third-party providers and building cloud-native microservices.

You will own distributed systems, event-driven data flows, and reliable API integrations, with emphasis on fault tolerance, tracing, and automated testing.

Qualifications

• Proven experience engineering high-scale production systems using Java and Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and AWS for microservices.
• Strong knowledge of Apache Kafka or similar messaging backbone.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage distributed backend microservices powering critical third-party integrations.
• Create reliable, event-driven data flows to process partner product updates, availability matrices, and transactional notifications.
• Apply strong distributed systems practices (fault tolerance, retries, rate-limiting, and idempotency) while leveraging metrics and tracing to maintain system health.
• Own the Lifecycle: end-to-end technical ownership from refining specs to live production monitoring.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

RESTful API design

Distributed systems principles

TDD/Automated testing

CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Apache Kafka

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Backend Software Engineer

Manchester - 2 days in the office

6 Months Contract + Extension

£72.00 per hour

A global e-commerce product organisation is urgently looking for experienced Backend Engineers to help lay the technical groundwork for scaling global partner connectivity across our travel and attractions ecosystem.

In this role, you will be part of a core engineering team tasked with integrating global third-party providers directly into our platform. You'll focus on building resilient, cloud-native services that manage product ingestion, availability streams, real-time messaging, webhooks, and complex data translations-ensuring seamless communication between external platforms and internal microservices.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage distributed backend microservices powering critical third-party integrations.
• Create reliable, event-driven data flows to process partner product updates, availability matrices, and transactional notifications.
• Apply strong distributed systems practices (fault tolerance, retries, rate-limiting, and idempotency) while leveraging metrics and tracing to maintain system health.
• Own the Lifecycle: Take end-to-end technical ownership-from refining specs and coding to testing, safe releases, and live production monitoring.

Essential

• Proven experience engineering high-scale production systems, primarily using Java and Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience developing microservices deployed via Kubernetes and AWS environments.
• Strong working knowledge of event-streaming tools like Apache Kafka or comparable messaging backbones.
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design, external integrations, distributed transaction handling, and canonical data models.
• solid grasp of TDD/automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and active operational telemetry (using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Grafana).

Manchester - 2 days in the office | 6 Months Contract + Extension | £72.00 per hour Inside IR35