Kotlin Backend Engineer for Microservices & APIs - Hybrid

Experis UK

Sheffield

Hybrid

GBP 50,000 - 83,000

Part time

20 hours ago

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Job summary

Experis UK in the United Kingdom is seeking a Kotlin Developer for a contract role in Sheffield, hybrid with 2-3 days on-site. You will work on Kotlin and Java-based web apps and APIs within the Developer Experience standards project, delivering robust microservices and clean code.

The role emphasizes proactive problem solvers, API design, SQL databases, and collaboration using GitHub/Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence.

Qualifications

Solid Kotlin experience or proven Java with willingness to learn Kotlin.
Experience building APIs and working with SQL databases.
Familiar with HTML/JavaScript frontend basics.
Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
Experience with Git, Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with developers, testers and the wider organisation to build and run products.
Design, develop & implement back-end features as per backlog/priority with a small element of frontend development.
All apps use a simple UI framework so not strictly 'front-end' development.
Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features.
Proactively work with customers to resolve their issues and respond to feature requests.
Build APIs and microservices
Work in an agile CI/CD environment to deliver rapid iterations at a sustained velocity
Be an active member of a team, participating in peer reviews and in testing others code through automated test scripting