Software Engineer – Event-Driven Platform

BranchFactor; Northampton; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Software Engineer in the Event Fabric team to design, build and evolve a core enterprise platform that enables event-driven, cell-based architecture across the organisation. You will contribute to foundational platform capabilities and collaborate with product, architecture and engineering teams.

You will mentor others, promote modern engineering standards, and implement secure, scalable services using Java/Spring Boot, AWS, and CI/CD practices, while delivering

Qualifications

• Hands-on Java software engineering experience.
• Experience with event-driven and distributed systems.
• Experience with microservices and API design.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and improve software for event-driven capabilities.
• Collaborate with product, architecture and engineering teams to align platform capabilities with business needs.
• Mentor engineers and promote high standards of code quality, testing, and operational readiness.
• Ensure secure coding practices, reliability and performance of services.

Skills

Java engineering

Event-driven architecture

Microservices

API design

Cloud (AWS)

DevOps / CI/CD

NoSQL (MongoDB)

Kafka

Distributed systems

Tools

Spring Boot

Kafka

MongoDB

AWS

Job description

Barclays is seeking a Software Engineer in the Event Fabric team to design, build and evolve a core enterprise platform that enables event-driven, cell-based architecture across the organisation. You will contribute to foundational platform capabilities and collaborate with product, architecture and engineering teams.

You will mentor others, promote modern engineering standards, and implement secure, scalable services using Java/Spring Boot, AWS, and CI/CD practices, while delivering