Senior Engineer – Platform Engineering (APIs)

What you will do:

• Lead API platform engineering using Kong, Kafka and microservice patterns on Kubernetes.

• Design and optimise API gateways, event flows and service interactions across multi cloud stacks.

• Ensure reliability, observability and performance for business critical integrations.

• Partner with product and backend teams to enable new capabilities via secure, modern interfaces.

• Mentor engineers, set engineering standards and drive adoption of best practices

 And... we are a bank so risk is a part of everything we do. We love people who take responsibility, do the right thing for customers, colleagues and Metro Bank and have the ability to call out any concerns.

What you will need: 
 

• Strong experience with API gateway technologies and event streaming.

• Deep understanding of Kubernetes in Azure and hosted environments like Rackspace.

• Strong microservice engineering skills ...