Senior Kotlin Backend Engineer - Cloud-Native, Scalable

Stanford Black Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is building a new digital banking platform, creating cloud-native services with Java and Kotlin in a fintech-like engineering culture. This team emphasizes modern architecture and a product engineering mindset.

You’ll design domain models, build scalable, highly available APIs, and own features from design through to production in a greenfield, multi-cloud environment. The role offers a hands-on, architecture-influenced path within a cloud-native stack used by

Qualifications

• Strong backend experience with Java or Kotlin.
• Strong software design and domain modelling skills.
• Experience building reliable, highly available production systems.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable backend services in Kotlin
• Design resilient systems with no single points of failure
• Use domain modelling to shape new banking products
• Build secure, highly available APIs and distributed systems
• Own problems from design through to production

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Backend engineering

Domain modelling

Distributed systems

Job description

A leading financial institution is building a new digital banking platform, creating cloud-native services with Java and Kotlin in a fintech-like engineering culture. This team emphasizes modern architecture and a product engineering mindset.

You’ll design domain models, build scalable, highly available APIs, and own features from design through to production in a greenfield, multi-cloud environment. The role offers a hands-on, architecture-influenced path within a cloud-native stack used by