Java Data Platform Engineer
Budapest
Hungary
Contract
Software Development
Senior Java Data / Platform Engineer
Client Location – Remote
Client Industry – AgriTech / IoT
Contract Type – Permanent or Freelance
Project focus
You will join a deep-tech scale-up building a real-time platform that captures biological signals directly from plants using thousands of IoT sensors. The business is transitioning from pilots into a production-grade data platform, scaling its ingestion volume rapidly year on year. This role focuses on shaping and operating the streaming backbone, backend services, and cloud infrastructure that power these insights.
Key skills and experience required
- Commercial experience building backend systems in Java
- Strong background working with high-volume event streams and messaging platforms (Kafka or similar)
- Experience designing and running data-heavy, distributed architectures in the cloud
- Hands-on work with container platforms and infrastructure automation (Kubernetes, Terraform or equivalent)
- Solid SQL capability with experience tuning and operating relational databases at scale (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Exposure to DevOps workflows such as CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and incident handling
- Comfortable collaborating with data science, product, and customer-facing teams
- Bonus points for Python usage and handling time-series or sensor data
Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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