Role:Mobile Backend Developer - Kotlin and java Duration: 6 Months Location: Manchester, UK (3 days Hybrid) The Role Seeking a Senior Application Engineer ( Backend cloud based application development) with deep technical expertise and thought leadership. You will drive strategy for your area of expertise across teams and foster a developer community within your domain. The role involves mentoring junior staff, ensuring high-quality deliverables, promoting best practices like TDD and BDD, and leading engineering practices across the SDLC. Your responsibilities: Provide advanced technical expertise in Backend Development, supporting the team with effective solutions and practical insights. Participate in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, development, deployment, and ongoing maintenance. Demonstrate a commitment to keeping up with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, actively applying them in your work. Contribute new ideas, tools, and methodologies to help foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the team. Share knowledge and mentor peers and junior engineers, supporting their growth and skills development. Collaborate with technical leads, IT teams, and business stakeholders to understand project requirements, implications, and dependencies. Review and provide feedback on technical documentation, suggesting improvements where appropriate. Promote and practice best development approaches such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) to deliver high-quality, maintainable code. Apply design patterns to address complex problems, ensuring code is efficient, readable, and reusable. Adhere to IT and Information Security policies and procedures in all engineering activities. Your Profile Essential skills/knowledge/experience: Preferred - Experience of building distributed scalable microservices using Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, OAuth 2.0, Secure API design Understanding of API design for mobile application with event driven architecture Strong analysis and problem-solving skills Knowledge of the financial services industry Other technologies/areas: AWS, API Design, Automation testing