Contract Senior Software Engineer - Java/Kotlin - Manchester - 6 months £600 per day (Inside IR35)

• Strong Senior software engineer experience
• Excellent skills with Java and/or Kotlin
• Strong distributed systems experience
• Cloud-native development (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD; AWS or similar)
• Kafka/message queues/event-driven architecture
• Strong communication skills

Senior Software Engineer, with strong Java/Kotlin skills and Kakfa, is required by a leading E-commerce company based in Manchester.

This is a hands-on senior contract role. You’ll own complex integration flows, define how a new team works, and put proper engineering foundations in place

What you’ll be doing

• Designing and building Back End services and APIs in Java/Kotlin (Spring Boot or similar), on Kubernetes with CI/CD
• Owning end-to-end connectivity flows
• Building reusable connectors and tooling to make onboarding cheaper and faster
• Leading design discussions, writing clear design docs, and reviewing code across the team