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# Software Engineer | Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, API

- **Company:** Digital Skills Ltd
- **Location:** Manchester, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £160,160.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Cloud Computing, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Data Transformation, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, Enterprise Messaging Systems, MySQL, Systems Integration, Data Logging, Grafana, Spring-boot, Reliability of Systems, Backend, Kotlin, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Restful APIs, Webhooks, Docker, Web Api
- **Published:** August 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-3794EB661F0266DEA9/

## About the Role

* Strong Back End development experience in Java or Kotlin
 * Experience with Spring Boot or similar frameworks
 * Proven experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and integrating external systems
 * Solid understanding of cloud-native environments, including Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines
 * Experience with distributed system challenges such as partial failures and resilience patterns
 * Knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL
 * Familiarity with Kafka, messaging systems or event-driven architectures
 * Experience using observability tools such as logs, metrics and dashboards, The ideal candidate will be a hands-on Back End engineer with at least 3 years of experience delivering production-ready services in Java or Kotlin. You will have strong API integration experience and a good understanding of cloud-native development and distributed system design.

This role suits someone comfortable working in a collaborative, evolving environment, who can take ownership of technical deliverables while contributing to improving platform reliability and scalability. Experience within integrations or marketplace environments would be advantageous but is not essential.

## Description

Digital Skills are working with a global technology business that is investing heavily in scaling its connectivity platform within a specific business unit. The organisation is focused on building robust integrations that support high-volume, Real Time transactions across a wide partner ecosystem., This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Contract Software Engineer to contribute to a growing connectivity team. You will play a key role in designing and building Back End services and integrations, working across modern cloud-native technologies in a collaborative, fast-moving environment., * Design and implement Back End services and APIs using Java or Kotlin in a Spring Boot environment

 * Build and enhance connectivity flows for products, availability, reservations and webhooks
 * Integrate with third-party APIs, handling authentication, error management and data transformation
 * Contribute to system reliability through logging, monitoring, alerting and tracing
 * Support incident management, including root cause analysis and continuous improvement
 * Apply distributed system best practices such as retries, timeouts and idempotency
 * Collaborate with product, commercial and operations teams to translate requirements into solutions
 * Participate in code reviews, design discussions and knowledge sharing within the team


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