A fast-growing Claims Management 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 / Javascript / 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
* 7+ years 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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