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 / 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)