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Nutmeg is Europe's leading Digital Wealth Manager, but we don't want to stop there! We're continuing to build our platform to help us achieve our mission of being the most trusted Digital Wealth Manager in the world.
Job in a nutshell:
We run a pure AWS-based cloud environment and deliver features using a continuous delivery approach. Our platform is in the process of being migrated from Mesos to Kubernetes and all our deployments are either containerised services or native mobile apps. Prometheus, Thanos and Grafana are used for observability.
We are also migrating into an Event-Driven Architecture with Apache Kafka as its backbone and a polyglot mix of microservices designed following Domain Driven Design principles.
We run a strong domain ownership model. As a Principal Engineer you will be a trusted technical authority and someone who communicates to the domains a consistent strategic direction adhering to architecture blueprints and ensuring the highest quality implementation.
We are looking for someone with previous job experience as an engineering lead/principal engineer ideally within a financial services company.
Requirements
Your skills:
Great team player with strong technical views focused on achieving best outcomes collaboratively
Ability to influence very experienced engineering teams in adopting designs and implementing standards
Strong expertise in designing, implementing and maintaining highly-scalable distributed systems
A good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
Experience with cloud platforms, ideally AWS, and containerisation tools such as Docker
Passion for quality and observability, an ability to understand complex systems and a desire to constantly make things better.
Lead cross-team working groups to improve standards, engagement and collaboration and drive enhancements
Passionate about technology with a strong record of delivering world-class technology in a tech-led space
Previous experience with one or more of the following:
Distributed systems (designing, managing, failures, testing)
JVM based languages (Java, Kotlin)
SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc)
Cloud experience
Data modelling (OLTP)
You might also have:
Previous experience with one or more of the following:
Kubernetes and Cloud Native
Kafka, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect
Serverless
Event Driven Architecture
Spring & Spring Boot ecosystem
Domain driven design
Also knowledge of monitoring, metrics and Site Reliability Engineering principals
Use of agile/lean methodologies for continuous delivery and improvement
Knowledge of monitoring, metrics or Site Reliability Engineering
Understanding of application security standards
Experience of public speaking (can be company internal)
Benefits
25 days' holiday
Birthday day off
2 days' paid community leave
Daily delivery of fresh fruit and artisanal coffee
Cycle storage and showers onsite
Choice of hardware
Generous pension plan
Private healthcare from day 1
Season ticket loans
Competitive salary
Access to coaching platform & regular knowledge sharing
Part of a diverse and inclusive Nutmeg team