Senior Kotlin/JVM Engineer

Senior Kotlin Engineer

Lendable

ABOUT LENDABLE Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start: * One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 700 people * Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK * Profitable since 2017 * Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs * Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot) So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days. We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes. JOIN US IF YOU WANT TO 1. Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1 2. Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo 3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting About the role As we continue to build upon the diversity of our team we are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring on board a Senior Kotlin engineer to a newly forming pod. This is an opportunity to bring new experience, perspective and capabilities to our design discussions, helping shape our approach to delivering elegant solutions to complex engineering challenges as we continue to grow. This is the team that put the Tech in FinTech, our current tech team is around 80 strong and have helped transform finance by building a next-generation lending platform, a next-gen credit card, and auto-finance product, and they’re at it again with brand new product launches this year. We're looking for an engineer with a depth of knowledge and recent hands-on Kotlin experience that enables them to not only deliver elegant, idiomatic solutions in Kotlin but also to contribute new knowledge and experience to our frequent collaborative design forums with stakeholders from every area of the business. There’s a lot to do, from building and integrating new API’s to help build out our new collections function to creating new internal tools and supporting our expansion of new products and supporting services in the US. We believe that software engineering is more than just code - it’s about people. We believe that the best teams are made of great people. That fundamentally great software engineering is about alignment, sharing what we know and being nice to each other. When we put all this together we make software engineering better by continually improving our capabilities as a team and making our working environment a happy and productive place. There is more to read about us and our Lendies in the engineering blog right here and if you’d like to check our reviews out on Glassdoor you can see these here. Our Tech Stack Backend * Kotlin 1.7.20 * AWS * GraphQL (it would be nice if you were familiar with this but it’s not a deal breaker) * Postgres * RabbitMQ * Docker * Kubernetes Frontend * React & React Native, TypeScript, MobX, Redux, Stylus and SASS Other * We build our Kotlin projects using Gradle and GitHub Actions, deploying to production as soon as we finish a feature * We use JUnit Jupiter, Kotest and TestContainers for automated testing What technical skills you’ll need to have * Strong commercial Kotlin experience * An ability to write simple, clean code * Experience and understanding of databases; relational databases are a must, NoSql would be nice too * Be able to quickly understand complex, financial business domains * Understand different software architectures rapidly * Understands abstraction and interpolation * Able to write comprehensive, automated tests at all levels of the pyramid * Understanding of the Kanban agile methodology; not a deal breaker if you don’t What kind of person you’ll need to be * Someone who can get along with others and build relationships * Someone who wants to continually learn, improve and collaborate * Someone who can solve problems on their own but also knows when to go to their peers for help * Someone who is a rational thinker and is aware of the ‘why’ behind the way they do things * Someone who is a pragmatist who can sensibly weigh the tradeoffs between code quality and delivery Interview process * A 30 minute introductory call with one of our engineers * A short coding exercise to complete in your own time * Onsite or Video Interview lasting 60-90 minutes, comprising of: * Introduction of the team and kind of work you could be doing daily * Discussion around the coding exercise you completed * Interactive architecture/design exercise * Tech project walkthrough * Cultural/behavioural questions to see if you’d be a good fit for Lendable * Questions you may have about the company, role, etc Check out our blog We also have an engineering blog where we have written in more detail how we work in the engineering team. Life at Lendable * The opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies * Best-in-class compensation including equity * You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas * Our in-house chef prepares fresh, healthy lunch in the office every Tuesday-Thursday * Encouraged and sponsored personal and team growth through our training budget, 10% time for all engineers and active guilds LIFE AT LENDABLE * Winning team: the opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies * Flexible working: flexible approach tailored to each role. Hybrid roles require three days in-office weekly; fully remote roles include regular opportunities for in-person connection through socials and off-sites * Socials & connection: opportunities and events to come together, socialise, and get to know each other beyond the office walls * Health coverage: support for your physical and mental wellbeing, including private health cover * Retirement & savings: long-term financial wellbeing through retirement savings plans * Employee referral programme: earn a competitive bonus when you refer successful new team members * Office meals & snacks: enjoy a fully stocked kitchen, plus complimentary lunches prepared by in-house chefs on in-office days at select locations * Sustainable commuting: cycle-to-work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes available in select locations Please note: The availability and details of specific benefits vary by location and role. For more information, please speak to your Talent Partner. Check out our blog!

Senior Java/Kotlin Software Engineer - London

Zopa

Our Story   Hello there. We’re Zopa.   We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com!    We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces.    If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count. Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalife The engineering challenge   Our Software Engineers don't just write code, they solve real financial problems for millions of customers. You'll work on distributed systems processing thousands of transactions daily, build resilient services that handle people's money, and create experiences that make traditionally complex financial products feel simple.

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

CreateFuture

Working at CreateFuture CreateFuture is an AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference  while always putting people first. We’re a team of creators. We write code, shape delivery, build go-to-market strategies, develop AI solutions and create the practices that support our people. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what’s not working and helping them to build the future. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years. Our UK Benefits  * 35 days leave (including bank holidays).  * Private medical insurance. * Enhanced parental and adoption leave.  * Financial coaching + 5% pension match. * 40 hours of paid learning and development.  View our full list of UK benefits.  CreateFuture is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and has won Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row. Join us on our journey. Let’s create tomorrow, together, today. A hands-on senior engineer embedded in the client's platform team, responsible for the reliability, scalability, and evolution of their Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and DevOps, owning the day-to-day health of containerised workloads while driving improvements to delivery pipelines, GitOps practices, and managed service configuration. The right candidate is comfortable working autonomously in a mature, opinionated stack and can influence without authority across engineering teams. Key Responsibilities * Own the operational health and evolution of containerised workloads running on EKS, including Helm chart management and Kustomize-based environment configuration * Drive GitOps practices using Flux, maintaining, improving, and troubleshooting the reconciliation pipeline across environments * Manage and optimise core managed services: EKS, MSK, and RDS, including scaling, patching, cost governance, and incident response * Maintain and extend infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, ensuring consistency, modularity, and alignment with AWS best practices * Support and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, including build, test, and deployment pipelines for containerised applications * Collaborate with development teams to support the hosting, debugging, and performance of Java/Kotlin and Python-based services * Identify and address platform-level technical debt, contributing to a roadmap of incremental improvements * Support on call for the EKS platform. Skills & Experience * Kubernetes at production scale, EKS preferred, with strong understanding of networking, RBAC, resource management, and cluster operations * GitOps tooling, Flux (essential), with solid working knowledge of Helm and Kustomize * AWS managed services, hands-on experience with EKS, MSK, and RDS in production environments * Terraform, authoring and maintaining modular infrastructure-as-code across multiple environments * GitHub Actions, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for containerised workloads * Application-layer awareness, ability to support and troubleshoot Java/Kotlin and/or Python services running in containers * Strong operational mindset, comfortable with on-call responsibilities, incident management, and root cause analysis WHAT WE’LL OFFER YOU: We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed. We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look. OUR HIRING PROCESS We try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process. It usually looks like this: * Call with our Talent Acquisition Team  * Role specific capability interview  Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens. INCLUSION AT CREATEFUTURE  We believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work. If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help. We look forward to your application!