Java / Kotlin Developer

Overview

In this Principal role, you stay hands-on while shaping architecture and engineering standards for a high-throughput platform in telecoms and online payments. You’ll lead technical direction within a close-knit R&D team and mentor engineers while delivering robust backend solutions. Expect to work with microservices, cloud, and event-driven patterns, influencing both technology choices and customer outcomes. This remote-first opportunity combines technical impact with leadership in a growing product area.

Pay / Benefits

• Birthday off
• Private medical
• Life assurance
• Critical illness cover
• Employee assistance programme
• Contributory pension

Responsibilities

• Hands-on backend development (approx. 90%) on a large, high-throughput platform
• Shape technical direction, standards, and architecture for the team
• Mentor engineers and evaluate new technologies
• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to translate requirements into robust solutions
• Work with Azure Cloud, microservices, and event-driven architecture in a distributed system
• Participate in designing and implementing REST APIs and services

Key requirements

• Java or Kotlin on JVM 11+
• Spring Boot experience
• Enterprise backend development
• REST APIs and microservices
• SQL and NoSQL databases
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Git and modern development practices

• leadership and mentorship
• strong communication with stakeholders
• problem solving in complex systems
• Java/Kotlin on JVM 11+
• Spring Boot
• REST APIs

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