Senior Backend Engineer Salary: £80,000 - £85,000 Location: London (2 days in office – Central London) Role Overview: Join our client as a Senior Backend Engineer to work within cross-functional squads. Enhance the event-driven microservices architecture and collaborate with Application Development, Data Engineering, and Technical Operations. Key Responsibilities: Build and enhance financial product functionalities in a scale-up environment. Develop and improve a microservices platform using Kotlin/Java on the Spring stack. Participate in two-week delivery cycles and scrum ceremonies. Ensure software meets technology operational requirements securely and cost-efficiently. Requirements: Technical Experience: 5 years as a professional software engineer (Java or Kotlin). Experience with Microservices patterns and Cloud Native approaches. Proficient in Spring framework (Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Spring Kafka, Spring Security). Experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis). Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and automated cloud-based CI/CD pipelines. Preferred Experience: Large-scale project experience. Fintech domain experience. The Person: Comfortable taking the lead and well-organized. Passionate about technology and eager to learn. Independent thinker and effective collaborator. Excellent written and verbal English skills. Benefits: Outcome-led, flexible work environment with hybrid working policy. 25 days annual leave with flexible hours for appointments. Regular team socials and dog-friendly London office. Support for mental and physical health with online fitness classes and gym access. Salary sacrifice scheme options for future savings.