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My client is looking for an experienced Senior Kotlin engineer to support and extend a cloud-hosted platform used for bookbuilding issuances within Investment Banking Capital Markets. You will join a high-calibre London-based front office engineering team working on a next-generation issuance platform replacing a legacy bookbuilding system. This is a hands-on engineering role with a strong emphasis on Extreme Programming (XP) practices, including mob programming, test-driven development, and continuous refactoring. Engineers are expected to contribute across development, integration, and production support, collaborating closely to maintain high standards of code quality, system reliability, and performance.
Job Responsibility
Work primarily in mobs, sharing ownership of design and code
Build, test, and evolve services with a strong focus on clarity, simplicity, and maintainability
Support the platform in production, using incidents and defects as opportunities to improve system design and resilience
Requirements
Strong commercial experience building backend services using Kotlin
Experience with event-sourced and event-driven architectures
Deep familiarity with XP practices, including: Mob programming as a primary way of working
Test-driven development (TDD)
Continuous refactoring and clean code principles
Cloud experience with GCP, including: GKE and/or Cloud Run
Cloud SQL and Memory store
Artifact Registry and Cloud Logging
Key Management
Experience with CI/CD and SDLC in regulated or enterprise environments
Comfortable working on production systems requiring high availability and accuracy