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Photon Tech Stack

AI-led digital transformation and cloud engineering for Fortune 500

IT Services and IT Consulting London 5,001–10,000 employees Founded 2007 Privately Held

Photon is a 5,000–10,000-person digital transformation and systems integration firm working with 40% of the Fortune 100. The tech stack reveals a Java-centric, enterprise-grade architecture (Spring, Kafka, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, Jira) paired with aggressive cloud and AI adoption: BigQuery, Looker, and LLM-based capabilities are actively being built, while Objective-C and ServiceNow are being phased out. The hiring mix is senior-heavy and engineering-dominated, with active projects spanning AWS multi-region architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and model-as-a-service platforms—signaling a pivot toward cloud-native and AI delivery at scale.

Tech Stack 200 technologies

Core StackJava Spring Kafka Oracle PostgreSQL SQL Server SonarQube Jenkins Jira Angular Snyk Spring Boot Spring MVC Spring Data Spring Security ActiveMQ Eclipse Git Gradle Artifactory Tomcat Jetty JBoss Jakarta EE JAX-RS JSP JSF JDBC Capacitor GCP+170 more

AdoptingBigQuery Looker Magento SwiftUI Google Analytics 4 Commerce Tools Tuist Swift Package Manager+8 more

ReplacingServiceNow Objective-C UIKit

What Photon Is Building

◆Challenges

Security compliance
Performance optimization
Data governance compliance
Technical debt reduction
Incident management
High availability
Scalable ml system reliability
Disaster recovery
Performance bottlenecks
Data completeness gaps

▲Active Projects

Multi-region aws architecture design
Ci/cd pipeline implementation
Platform development
Implement llm-based capabilities
Restful api integration
Continuous delivery and automation efforts
Mobile architecture strategy
Data ingestion pipelines from oracle to elasticsearch
Model-as-a-service platform
Pwakit implementation

Hiring Activity

Steady160 roles · 70 in 30d

Department

Engineering

106

Product

13

Design

11

Data

10

HR

4

Finance

2

Marketing

2

Ops

2

Seniority

Senior

102

Lead

29

Mid

17

Manager

4

Principal

1

Notable leadership hires: Creative Director, Product Lead, Tech Lead, Technical Lead, User Experience Lead

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About Photon

Photon combines digital strategy, product design, and engineering delivery for Fortune 500 clients pursuing AI adoption and digital transformation. The firm operates across dozens of countries with particular hiring concentration in the United States, India, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Core service areas span API management, mobile development, big data analytics, IoT, and creative/digital strategy; the active project list shows deepening expertise in cloud architecture, data pipelines, and AI model deployment. The company has grown from a traditional systems integrator into a consulting and delivery firm explicitly positioning itself at the intersection of digital, cloud, and AI.

HeadquartersLondon

Company Size5,001–10,000 employees

Founded2007

Hiring MarketsUnited States, India, Ireland, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Mexico, Peru

Frequently Asked Questions

What tech stack does Photon use?

Java, Spring framework, Kafka, Oracle, PostgreSQL, GCP, and Jenkins form the core stack. Active adoption includes BigQuery, Looker, AWS, and Azure; the firm is migrating away from Objective-C and ServiceNow.

What is Photon working on?

Multi-region AWS architecture, CI/CD pipelines, LLM-based capabilities, model-as-a-service platforms, mobile architecture strategy, and data ingestion from legacy systems (Oracle to Elasticsearch).