Mid/Senior Backend Engineer (Java)

Salary: £49,000 - 89,000 per year

Requirements

• Fluency with Java
• 4+ years of experience in backend development
• A bachelors degree in computer science, maths, physics, or a similar field
• The ability to learn quickly, with an ambitious, results-driven attitude
• The ability to work well as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Fluency in English
• Proficiency with Kotlin or Scala is a plus
• A background in finance is a plus
• Experience in a startup or scale-up is a plus
• Experience in a product-focused environment is a plus

Responsibilities

• Build mobile APIs
• Develop microservices to evolve our architecture
• Improve systems our business depends on, including risk management, fraud detection, and payment processing
• Focus on greenfield development and improvement of existing systems

Technologies

• Backend
• DDD
• Flyway
• GCP
• Grafana
• Java
• Kotlin
• Kubernetes
• Mobile
• PostgreSQL
• Prometheus
• Redis
• Scala
• TDD
• microservices
• Cloud

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We are Revolut, a fast-growing global financial technology company on a mission to give people more from their money through greater visibility, control, and freedom. Our products cover spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more, serving over 75 million customers worldwide. We have more than 13,000 people working across offices and remotely, and we are certified as a Great Place to Work. Our Technology team builds the systems and experiences that keep us moving, and for this remote Mid/Senior Backend Engineer role we use a modern stack including Java 17/21, GCP, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, NewRelic, PostgreSQL, Redis, Spock, jOOQ, and Flyway. We value clean, maintainable code, shipped fast with TDD, DDD, and continuous integration and delivery.

last updated 28 week of 2026