Interim Senior Software Lead Kotlin £1200 p/d

The lead Software Engineer will have senior-level experience in Kotlin and Event-sourcing, and business communication skills. You will leverage your Kotlin and event sourcing expertise within the team, as well as communicating with business users, without proxy.

This is a senior engineering position focused on designing, building, and evolving backend services in Kotlin within a modern cloud-native architecture.

You will work closely with engineers, product specialists, and business stakeholders to deliver resilient, scalable solutions that support real-time issuance and allocation workflows.

The role places strong emphasis on:

• Mob programming
• Test-driven development (TDD)
• Continuous refactoring
• Collective ownership
• Incremental delivery
• Production excellence

• Extremely senior-level Kotlin experience
• Event-sourcing, and business communication skills
• Ability to leverage Kotlin sourcing expertise with the team and communicate well with business users
• Strong commercial experience building backend services using Kotlin
• Deep understanding of event-driven and/or event-sourced architectures
• Extensive experience with XP engineering practices
• Strong cloud engineering experience within GCP environments
• Experience working within regulated or enterprise-scale environments
• Comfortable supporting high-availability production systems