Technical Lead - Java/Kotlin AI for Fintech Payments

Adria Solutions Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Hybrid working in Manchester

Learning & progression

Job summary

Adria Solutions is seeking a Technical Lead for a fintech payments platform in Manchester. The role blends hands-on coding with technical leadership, guiding architecture, mentoring engineers and delivering secure, reliable services.

You will work with Java, Kotlin and possibly Scala, shape CI/CD practices, and apply AI coding tools to accelerate development while meeting card scheme requirements and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• At least eight years’ commercial software development experience.
• Strong development experience with Java, Kotlin or Scala.
• Experience building asynchronous, event-driven systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build payments services using Java, Kotlin or Scala.
• Develop asynchronous, event-driven systems to support card and payment processing.
• Remain actively involved in coding while providing technical direction to the team.
• Resolve technical blockers, review code and mentor engineers.
• Shape architecture decisions and establish engineering standards.
• Collaborate with platform engineers to improve CI/CD pipelines and provide fast development feedback.
• Guide the team’s use of AI coding tools.
• Own features through design, development, testing, deployment and ongoing support.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Scala

Mentoring

CI/CD

Automated testing

AI coding tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Secure coding

Job description

Adria Solutions is seeking a Technical Lead for a fintech payments platform in Manchester. The role blends hands-on coding with technical leadership, guiding architecture, mentoring engineers and delivering secure, reliable services.

You will work with Java, Kotlin and possibly Scala, shape CI/CD practices, and apply AI coding tools to accelerate development while meeting card scheme requirements and regulatory standards.