Senior Kotlin Backend Engineer – Scalable Trading Platform

Luxoft

Greater London

On-site

GBP 65,000 - 105,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Luxoft in London is seeking an experienced backend engineer to join the Equity Accelerator programme, focusing on modernizing Prime Finance Equities platforms. You will design and build scalable backend services using Kotlin and Java, with event-driven, cloud-native architectures, contributing to platform transformation and market expansion initiatives.

Collaborating with business and technology stakeholders across the equities domain, you will mentor peers and drive technical excellence in a

Qualifications

2+ years of commercial Kotlin development experience.
Experience building event-driven distributed systems.
Deep understanding of messaging concepts.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain backend services for trading and post-trade platforms.
Build scalable event-driven applications and messaging-based integrations.
Develop services using Kotlin and Java within JVM ecosystems.
Contribute to architecture design and technology decisions.
Ensure software quality through Test-Driven Development (TDD).
Implement reliable data processing, event replay, and failure recovery mechanisms.
Participate in CI/CD pipelines and frequent production deployments.
Analyze and resolve complex production and performance issues.
Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders across the equities domain.
Drive technical excellence and mentor other engineers.
Apply deep understanding of capital markets workflows to solution design.