Staff Software Engineer - Streaming Software engineering London

Checkout Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Greater London is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join their Data and AI Platform Team. The ideal candidate should have strong experience with event streaming technologies such as Kafka and Flink, along with a solid engineering background. Responsibilities include building a scalable event streaming platform and providing leadership across engineering teams. The position requires strong programming skills in Java or Python, and familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker. The working model may involve hybrid options based on company policy.

Qualifications

• Strong presentation and communication skills with a proven track record of influencing engineering organizations.
• Strong engineering background with a track record of implementing and owning event streaming platforms.
• Hands-on experience working with stream technologies.

Responsibilities

• Work with stream processing technologies to build a large-scale event streaming platform.
• Leverage expertise to provide leadership and mentoring across the organization.
• Build tooling and documentation to foster the adoption of the streaming platform.
• Implement infrastructure for end users to build and deploy streaming applications.
• Provide consultancy to drive the adoption of the platform.
• Participate in requirements collection and architecture initiatives.
• Provide hands-on support for event-based systems.

Skills

Strong presentation and communication skills

Implementing event streaming platforms

Working with Kafka

Designing stream processing applications with Flink

Working with AWS services

Kubernetes experience

Experience with SQL databases

Docker management

Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

Programming skills in Java or Python

Tools

Kafka

Flink

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Staff Data Engineer – Data & AI Platform

Checkout.com is looking for an ambitious Staff Data Engineer to join our Data and AI Platform Team. The team’s mission is to build a platform where you can create reliable, scalable, AI‑powered streaming and batch data applications, and share data across Checkout.com to improve business performance.

The team ensures internal stakeholders can easily collect, store, process and utilise data to build AI use cases and data products that solve business problems. Our focus is on maximizing the time engineers spend on solving business problems and minimizing time spent on technical details around implementation, deployment, and monitoring of their solutions.

We are building for scale. Much of what we design and implement today serves hundreds of teams and petabyte‑level volumes of data.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with stream processing technologies (Kafka and Flink) to build a continuously available large‑scale event streaming platform
• Leverage subject matter and technical expertise to provide leadership, mentoring, and strategic influence across the organisation while building strong relationships with engineers and engineering managers
• Build tooling (modules/SDKs/DSLs) and associated documentation to foster the adoption of the streaming platform by enabling upstream teams and systems to easily publish data and deploy streaming applications
• Implement all necessary infrastructure to enable end users to build, host, monitor and deploy their own streaming applications
• Provide consultancy across the technology organisation to drive the adoption of the platform and unlock event‑driven use‑cases
• Participate in translating, running, and executing the collection of requirements and architecture/design initiatives into action plans
• Provide hands‑on support for all event‑based systems, including incident triage and root cause analysis

About You

• Strong presentation and communication skills with a proven track record of influencing engineering organisations
• Strong engineering background with a track record of implementing and owning event streaming platforms
• Hands‑on experience working with stream technologies, primarily Kafka, but also Kinesis
• Experience designing and implementing stream processing applications with Flink
• Experience working with cloud‑based technologies such as AWS (MSK, S3, Lambda, ECS, SNS)
• Experience with Kubernetes (either self‑hosted or on the cloud)
• Experience with SQL databases
• Experience working with Docker, container deployment and management
• Experience describing infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar) and designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent programming skills in at least one of Java or Python