Senior Kotlin/JVM Engineer

Salary: £55,000 - 95,000 per year

Requirements

• Strong commercial Kotlin or JVM-based engineering experience, with willingness to work in Kotlin
• Ability to write simple, clean code
• Experience and understanding of databases; relational databases are required and NoSQL is a plus
• Ability to quickly understand complex financial business domains
• Ability to rapidly understand different software architectures
• Understanding of abstraction and interpolation
• Ability to write comprehensive automated tests at all levels of the testing pyramid
• Understanding of the Kanban agile methodology is a plus
• Ability to work collaboratively, build relationships, and communicate effectively
• Strong problem-solving skills and a rational, pragmatic approach to trade-offs between code quality and delivery

Responsibilities

• Build and integrate new APIs
• Tune existing services as they scale
• Support the expansion of new products and supporting services in the US
• Contribute to collaborative design discussions and help shape elegant solutions to complex engineering challenges
• Bring new knowledge, experience, and perspective to the team
• Deliver idiomatic solutions in Kotlin or Java
• Work closely with stakeholders from across the business
• Collaborate with peers to improve team capabilities and maintain a happy, productive engineering environment

Technologies

• Support
• JVM
• Java
• Kanban
• Kotlin
• NoSQL
• AI
• API
• GitHub
• Gradle
• JUnit
• Machine Learning
• React
• React Native
• Redux
• TypeScript

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We are Lendable, a fast-growing fintech company on a mission to build the worlds best technology to help people get credit and save money. We are one of the UKs newest unicorns, profitable since 2017, backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs, and loved by customers with top Trustpilot reviews. Our engineering team is around 80 strong and has rebuilt major consumer finance products from scratch, including loans, credit cards, car finance, and a superapp. We offer a hybrid working model in London, flexible working tailored to each role, social events, health coverage, retirement savings, an employee referral programme, office meals and snacks, and sustainable commuting benefits, with details varying by location and role.

last updated 34 week of 2026