We’re looking for a Senior Java/Kotlin Engineer who loves building real products used by real customers. You’ll join a high-impact product engineering team designing and delivering scalable, event-driven systems in the cloud.
This is a hands-on senior role for someone who thrives on ownership, enjoys solving complex problems, and wants to shape both technical direction and product outcomes.
What you’ll be doing
Designing and building high-scale backend services in Java and Kotlin
Building and operating systems on AWS cloud infrastructure
Working closely with Product, Design, and Data teams to deliver customer-facing features
Driving technical architecture, engineering standards, and best practices
Mentoring engineers and contributing to a strong engineering culture
Improving performance, reliability, and observability of distributed systems
Strong professional experience with Java and/or Kotlin
Proven track record building and shipping customer-facing products
Deep experience with Apache Kafka / event streaming architectures
Production experience with AWS (e.g. ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.)
Experience designing microservices and distributed systems
Strong knowledge of system design, scalability, and resilience
Experience working in cross-functional product teams
Excellent communication and mentoring skills
Nice to have
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
Kubernetes or container orchestration
CI/CD and DevOps practices
Experience in high-growth or scale-up environments
Working setup
Hybrid: 3 days per week in our London office
2 days work from home
Flexible working hours and strong work-life balance culture
What you’ll get
Meaningful product ownership and impact
Modern tech stack and strong engineering culture
Collaborative, supportive team environment
Opportunity to shape architecture and technical direction
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