Role:Mobile Backend Developer - Kotlin and javaDuration: 6 MonthsLocation:Manchester, UK (3 days Hybrid)

The Role

Seeking a Senior Application Engineer ( Backend cloud based application development) with deep technical expertise and thought leadership. You will drive strategy for your area of expertise across teams and foster a developer community within your domain. The role involves mentoring junior staff, ensuring high-quality deliverables, promoting best practices like TDD and BDD, and leading engineering practices across the SDLC.

Your responsibilities:

• Provide advanced technical expertise in Backend Development, supporting the team with effective solutions and practical insights.
• Participate in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, development, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
• Demonstrate a commitment to keeping up with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, actively applying them in your work.
• Contribute new ideas, tools, and methodologies to help foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the team.
• Share knowledge and mentor peers and junior engineers, supporting their growth and skills development.
• Collaborate with technical leads, IT teams, and business stakeholders to understand project requirements, implications, and dependencies.
• Review and provide feedback on technical documentation, suggesting improvements where appropriate.
• Promote and practice best development approaches such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) to deliver high-quality, maintainable code.
• Apply design patterns to address complex problems, ensuring code is efficient, readable, and reusable.
• Adhere to IT and Information Security policies and procedures in all engineering activities.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Preferred - Experience of building distributed scalable microservices using Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, OAuth 2.0, Secure API design
• Understanding of API design for mobile application with event driven architecture
• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of the financial services industry
• Other technologies/areas: AWS, API Design, Automation testing