Mobile Backend Developer

5 days ago

Salford, Salford, United Kingdom Free-Work UK Full time £30,000 - £120,000 per year

Mobile Backend Developer (JAVA/Kotlin)

6 Month contract initially

Based: Manchester - Max 3 days Onsite

Rate: £Market rates (via Umbrella company)

We have a great opportunity with a world leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed. A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference. We have a great opportunity for a Mobile Backend Developer (JAVA/Kotlin) to join the team.

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.

Key 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.

Key Skills & 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

This is an excellent opportunity on a great project of work, If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, apply now for your CV to reach me directly, we will respond as soon as possible.

LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.

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