Pride Global
Senior Kotlin Engineer VP Level
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Senior Kotlin Engineer, VP level
Pay rate = £900-£1200 per day inside IR35 Umbrella
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 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.
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:
- GKE and / or Cloud Run
- 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
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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
Benefits for U.S. Employees:
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans)
- Supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity)
- 401(k)-retirement savings
- Life & disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Legal support
- Pet insurance
- Employee discounts with preferred vendors
Equal Employment Opportunity
PrideGlobal and its affiliates are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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Fair Chance Employment
PrideGlobal and its affiliates are a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.
Accommodations
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.
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