Senior Kotlin Engineer - VP Level, Mob-Driven Backend

Pride Global; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

PrideGlobal is seeking a senior Kotlin engineer in London to join a front-office engineering team building a cloud-based issuance platform. This hybrid role involves three days in the office and extensive XP practices, mob programming, and maintaining high code quality.

The engineer will work across development, integration, and production support, contributing to scalable, reliable services in a regulated enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience building backend services in Kotlin.
• Experience with event-sourced and event-driven architecture.
• Deep XP practices experience: mob programming, test-first development, continuous refactoring.
• Cloud experience in CARE Cloud / GCP, including GKE and Cloud Run, Artifact Registry, Cloud Logging.
• CI/CD/SDLC experience in regulated/enterprise environments.
• Comfortable working in production systems with high availability and correctness requirements.

Responsibilities

• Work primarily in mobs, sharing ownership of design and code.
• Build, test, and evolve services with a focus on clarity, simplicity, and maintainability.
• Support the platform in production, using incidents and defects as opportunities to improve system design and resilience.

Skills

Kotlin backend

Event-driven architecture

XP practices

Mob programming

Production support

Tools

GKE

Cloud Run

Artifact Registry

Cloud Logging

Job description

PrideGlobal is seeking a senior Kotlin engineer in London to join a front-office engineering team building a cloud-based issuance platform. This hybrid role involves three days in the office and extensive XP practices, mob programming, and maintaining high code quality.

The engineer will work across development, integration, and production support, contributing to scalable, reliable services in a regulated enterprise environment.