Staff Java Backend Engineer

Location: Hybrid - London OR Manchester 

Job Type: Permanent | Full-Time

Salary: £95,000 - £110,000 + Benefits

We're partnering with a leading UK digital banking platform as they expand their engineering organisation with strategic senior hires. They're seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to play a key role in shaping and scaling the distributed systems that sit at the heart of their platform.

This is a high-impact role for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex architectural problems, driving technical maturity, and guiding engineering direction across multiple services and teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of backend systems built with Java 11+ & Spring Boot
• Architect distributed, event-driven systems that support high-volume transactional workloads
• Develop robust, well-typed service contracts and define API boundaries across domains
• Set technical standards around scalability, resilience, observability, testing, and automation
• Provide engineering leadership across squads, mentoring senior engineers and influencing roadmaps
• Guide system design discussions around concurrency, fault tolerance, transactional consistency, and recovery strategies
• Drive initiatives that improve performance, reliability, and platform scalability
• Work closely with product and technical leadership to align long-term architectural direction

Skills & Experience

• Extensive backend engineering experience with Java (11/17+) and Spring Boot
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architecture
• Strong experience with Kafka or equivalent message brokers
• Proven ability to reason about complex systems: idempotency, locking, consistency models, failure modes, and scaling patterns
• Experience designing system-wide architecture or leading migrations/refactors
• Strong influence skills — able to challenge ideas, improve standards, and support engineering teams
• Background working in high-scale environments (fintech, payments, ecommerce, cloud-native platforms)
• Passion for engineering excellence and driving technical direction

What's on Offer

• Modern engineering culture (automation, TDD, pairing where useful)
• Real ownership and the opportunity to influence technical direction
• Work on a platform with high scale, strong technical challenges, and significant user impact
• Supportive environment that values engineering excellence and continuous improvement

If you're interested in learning more about the role, team structure, or engineering culture, feel free to reach out for an initial conversation.

Role: Events Specialist

Location: Hybrid (3 days per week in London)

Salary: £35,000 per annum

We're looking for an organised and proactive Events Specialist to join a small, friendly team delivering a busy calendar of conferences and webinars for a membership-based organisation.

You'll take ownership of events from start to finish - managing logistics, venues, speakers, and delegates - ensuring every event runs smoothly and professionally.

What You'll Do

• Deliver a mix of in-person and digital events across the UK.
• Manage venues, delegate registrations, and speaker logistics.
• Host events onsite and online, ensuring a seamless experience.
• Liaise with internal teams and external partners.
• Track budgets and support post-event reporting.

About You

• Hands-on experience running corporate conferences or webinars.
• Strong organisational and communication skills.
• Confident managing multiple projects and stakeholders.
• Comfortable working within structured processes and realistic budgets.
• Friendly, reliable, and calm under pressure.

IT Technician - Contract (On-Site, £150-£200 per day)

Location: North London
Start: ASAP
Type: On-site, Monday-Friday (40 hours per week)
Contract: Short-term interim cover
IR35: TBD (status determination pending)

Overview

We are supporting an established educational organisation in North London who require an IT Technician on a short-term contract basis. This role provides hands-on support across a diverse user base consisting of staff and students. The ideal candidate will be capable of hitting the ground running with minimal handover, providing high-quality customer-focused IT support.

This position is fully on-site, covering a 40-hour week between 8am-5pm on a rota basis.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver first-class, customer-focused IT support across staff and student users

• Provide face-to-face technical assistance for day-to-day IT issues

• Build, image, patch and configure desktop and laptop devices

• Support and manage iPads/iOS devices and other hardware

• Configure printers, networked devices and peripherals

• Create and manage user accounts via Active Directory and O365

• Support with starters and leavers, including provisioning and access control

• Update tickets, maintain accurate documentation and follow process

• Escalate issues appropriately to senior members of the team

• Participate in small IT projects where required

• Offer general guidance and advice on IT best practices to end users

Key Technologies

Experience supporting several of the following is preferred:

• Microsoft Windows 10/11

• Microsoft Office / O365 / SharePoint Online

• Active Directory / Group Policy

• Intune or SCCM (beneficial, not essential)

• iPads / iOS Management

• Networking basics (patching, Wi-Fi support)

• Desktop / laptop hardware troubleshooting

• Network printing

• Experience in education environments (beneficial)