A fast-growing Legal and Financial Services company based in Liverpool is requires a hands-on Lead Integration Engineer & Developer to take ownership of their growing integration platform connecting core internal systems with external partners and services. This is a high-impact role combining deep technical delivery with architectural leadership. Youll spend a significant portion of your time building production systems, while also shaping the future of their integration ecosystem.
The platform is built around HubSpot and a modern event-driven architecture in AWS, and youll play a key role in defining how they design APIs, process events, and scale integrations across the business.
The role is paying £90,000-£100,000 plus good benefits and is a hybrid role (3 days in the office 2 working from home), but with attendance in the central Liverpool office encouraged given the nature of the role and the team management aspect.
Technology Environment
Core Stack
AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS)
Node.js / TypeScript and Python
Data & Infrastructure
DynamoDB, RDS
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation)
CloudWatch and observability tooling
Integrations
HubSpot (CRM)
Internal microservices and external APIs
Required Experience
Significant experience in backend or platform engineering
Strong hands-on AWS experience (serverless preferred)
Proven experience with distributed, event-driven systems
Experience integrating with third-party APIs
End-to-end ownership of systems (design/build/operate)
Technical Expertise
Event-driven architecture (EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Kafka)
Reliability patterns (retries, idempotency, DLQs)
Observability and debugging in distributed systems
Data modelling and schema evolution
Leadership & Collaboration
Ability to lead technical design and influence architecture
Experience mentoring engineers
Strong communication across technical and non-technical teams
Comfortable in a fast-paced, evolving environment
Desirable
Experience with HubSpot or CRM integrations
Ownership of internal integration platforms
High-volume event ingestion or real-time pipelines
Containerisation (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)
Observability tools (Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
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