Lead Integration Engineer & Developer

Posted 1 day 22 hours ago by Ashdown Group

£100,000 - £125,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Lancashire, Liverpool, United Kingdom, L1 9
Job Description

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. You'll 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 you'll 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
  • 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)