Staff Data Engineer - Streaming Platform Lead (Hybrid)

Checkout.com; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Checkout.com is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join the Data and AI Platform Team in London. You will help build a scalable, AI-powered streaming platform to share data across Checkout.com and drive business performance.

The role emphasizes engineering leadership, end-to-end platform ownership, and collaboration with multiple teams to deliver reliable streaming applications at petabyte-scale.

Qualifications

• Strong experience owning and scaling event streaming platforms.
• Hands-on with stream technologies such as Kafka and Flink.
• Proficient in cloud-based tech (AWS) and containerised deployments.

Responsibilities

• Work with stream processing technologies to build a large-scale event streaming platform.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and influence across the organisation.

Skills

Event streaming

Kafka

Flink

AWS

Kubernetes

SQL databases

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Java or Python

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Checkout.com is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join the Data and AI Platform Team in London. You will help build a scalable, AI-powered streaming platform to share data across Checkout.com and drive business performance.

The role emphasizes engineering leadership, end-to-end platform ownership, and collaboration with multiple teams to deliver reliable streaming applications at petabyte-scale.