Interim Senior Software Lead Kotlin £1200 p/d
Posted 5 hours 34 minutes ago by 1st Executive Ltd
Duration: 6-month Contract
Location: London (Hybrid)
Client: Investment Banking Technology
An Interim Senior Software Engineer to join a high-performing front-office engineering team delivering a next-generation cloud-native issuance platform for global capital markets.
This platform is replacing a legacy bookbuilding system used by investment banking teams worldwide and supports high-volume, real-time workflows during critical trading windows. The engineering environment is collaborative, fast-paced, and strongly aligned to Extreme Programming (XP) principles.
The Role
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
- Collective ownership
Required Skills & Experience
- 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
This is an opportunity to work on a business-critical platform used globally, within a modern Cloud-native engineering environment.
Note: Applicants must hold current and valid UK Right to Work