Senior Software Engineer II
StepStone Group5 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 with Enterprise Architecture.
- Improve code quality, testing, observability, reliability, and operational practices.
- Guide teams through complex technical challenges and contribute to planning and risk management.
- Mentor engineers, develop senior technical capabilities, and champion AI-assisted development and engineering automation.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, or equivalent senior individual contributor.
- Strong background in data platforms, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience shaping technical direction across teams and stakeholders.
- Expertise with technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Kafka/MSK, Airflow, Glue, or Spark.
- Experience with 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 of up to 10%.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
- Life Assurance Cover.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Hybrid working model.
- Volunteering days and the option to bring your 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.