Overview
Lead Developer - Event Processing | Royal Mail
Location: London (Hybrid) London Farringdon, for 3 days a week in the office. Department: Digital Transformation. This is a full-time, permanent role with a competitive salary, bonus potential, 25 days annual leave and pension.
What You'll Do
* Deliver high-quality, efficient solutions across a complex and evolving technology estate.
* Collaborate with senior developers, platform engineers, DevOps, and testers to build and release robust software incrementally.
* Design and implement scalable microservices and event-driven architectures using technologies like Kafka.
* Champion software craftsmanship, writing reliable, maintainable code that solves real business problems.
* Contribute to system design, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and operational excellence.
* Support production systems, troubleshoot incidents, and implement resilient fixes.
What You Bring
* Proven experience leading large-scale modernisation programmes.
* A confident communicator—both in code and conversation.
* Passion for clean code, continuous improvement, and agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban).
* Strong Java skills; polyglot developers are highly valued.
* Expertise in:
o Microservices architecture
o Event processing patterns (Kafka or equivalent)
o REST APIs and JSON
o TDD, mocking, CI/CD pipelines
o Infrastructure as Code and automated deployments
Why Join Us
* Be part of a mission-critical transformation that touches millions of lives daily.
* Work in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment where innovation is celebrated.
* Enjoy flexible working, career development, and a culture that values your voice.
About Us
At Royal Mail we connect companies, customers and communities across the country, delivering a 'one-price-goes-anywhere', universal postal service to more than 30 million addresses. As one of the UK's leading companies, we are focused on being recognised as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe.
Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.
We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.
We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.
Closing Date: 30th January 2026. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
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