Senior Software Engineer II
StepStone Group9 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the technical vision, roadmap, and architecture for the Data Platform.
- Drive architectural decisions across data, platform, and infrastructure domains.
- Establish engineering standards, best practices, and reusable patterns.
- Guide teams through complex technical challenges and support end-to-end delivery.
- Improve code quality, testing, observability, reliability, and operational practices.
- Mentor engineers and grow senior technical capabilities.
- Champion AI-assisted development and engineering automation.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent senior individual contributor leader.
- Strong background in data platforms, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience shaping technical direction across teams and stakeholders.
- Expertise with AWS, Terraform, Kafka/MSK, Airflow, Glue or Spark, and scalable data solutions.
- Knowledge of data lakes or lakehouse architectures, Iceberg or similar table formats, and batch and streaming processing.
- Knowledge of data quality, governance, cataloguing, and observability tools such as Datadog.
- Experience with DBT or AI-assisted engineering practices is a plus.
Benefits
- 29 days of holiday allowance plus bank holidays.
- Private medical and dental healthcare.
- Pension contribution up to 10%.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
- Life Assurance Cover.
- Cycle-to-work scheme.
- Hybrid working model.
- Volunteering days and the ability to bring a dog to the office.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About StepStone Group
The Stepstone Group operates online job platforms and programmatic recruitment services that match employers with candidates. It sells job advertising, CV database access, and hiring solutions to businesses across a portfolio of brands including Stepstone, Totaljobs, and Appcast. Headquartered in Düsseldorf, it serves markets in 30+ countries through local sites and technology used by both enterprises and SMBs.