Russell Tobin
Senior kotlin Engineer
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Senior Kotlin Engineer, VP level
Pay rate: £850 per day inside IR35 Umbrella
Location: London/Hybrid (3 days in office)
Company requires: a senior, experienced Kotlin engineer to support and extend a cloud-hosted platform used for bookbuilding issuances across. These roles will join a high-calibre London front-office engineering team building a new issuance platform to replace a legacy bookbuilder.
This is a hands-on engineering role with a strong emphasis on Extreme Programming (XP) practices, including mob programming, test-first development, and continuous refactoring. Engineers are expected to contribute across development, integration, and production support, working closely as a team to maintain a high standard of code quality and system reliability.
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Required & Desirable Skills:
Strong commercial experience building backend services in Kotlin
Experienced with: event-sourced and event-driven architecture
Deep experience with XP practices, including:
- Mob programming as a primary way of working
- Test-driven development (TDD)
- Continuous refactoring and clean code discipline
Cloud experience in CARE Cloud / GCP, including:
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- Cloud SQL, Memorystore
- Artifact Registry, Cloud Logging
- Key Management
CI/CD and SDLC experience in a regulated / enterprise environment
Comfortable working in production systems with high availability and correctness requirements
Engineers in this role:
- Work primarily in mobs, sharing ownership of design and code
- Build, test, and evolve services with a strong focus on clarity, simplicity, and maintainability
- Support the platform in production, using incidents and defects as opportunities to improve system design and resilience
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