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Senior Software Engineer

La Fosse — Germany · Posted ~1 day ago

Senior Contract Onsite Visa History ✓ £500/day outside IR35

Skills

Backend software development Cloud-native architecture Microservices REST APIs Distributed systems Event-driven architecture Secure and highly available systems Modern software engineering practices Cloud

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A senior software engineering opportunity supporting a major European launch programme within a highly regulated financial technology environment. You will work in product-focused squads to build secure, resilient backend services, REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven distributed systems. The initial contract is one year with strong potential for extension, offering substantial technical ownership and close collaboration with product and business stakeholders.

Highlights

One-year contract with strong extension potential, a senior engineering position in a cloud-native environment, and opportunities to work on scalable, secure, and business-critical financial technology.

Description

The Role: Our client is seeking two Senior Software Engineers to join its Germany launch programme, working as embedded members of product-focused engineering squads. The successful candidates will play a key role in delivering financial related capabilities and broader digital banking platform initiatives within a cloud-native, highly regulated financial services environment. Type: ContractDay Rate: £500 outside IR35Onsite Requirement: This role requires you to be in office 5 days per week (Canary Wharf, London)Contract length: 1 year initial length (high likelihood to extend further) Key Responsibilities: Design, develop and support scalable cloud-native backend services and microservices.Build secure, resilient, highly available systems using modern software engineering practices.Develop REST APIs, distributed systems and event-driven architectures.Collaborate closely with product, engineering and business stakeholders to deliver business outcomes.Contribute across the full software development lifecycle, including design, testing, deployment and production support.Drive system performance, scalability, reliability and operational excellence.Support CI/CD pipelines, automation and zero-downtime deployment practices.Mentor engineers, promote best practices and contribute to architectural decision-making. Required Experience: Extensive backend engineering experience with strong Java expertise.Kotlin experience is highly desirable.Proven experience building and supporting cloud-native applications and microservices architectures.Strong understanding of distributed systems, REST APIs and event-driven/messaging-based solutions.Experience with automated testing including unit, integration and end-to-end testing.Production support and incident management experience within critical systems environments.Experience working with relational and non-relational databases.Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, evolving environments. Technical Environment: JavaKotlinAWS / Cloud-native platformsMicroservices architectureREST APIsDistributed systemsMessaging & Event-Driven ArchitectureRelational & NoSQL DatabasesCI/CD & DevOps PracticesAutomated Testing Frameworks If you're interested, please use the link to apply.