Remote Senior Software Engineer (Kotlin) - 6 month contract in Essex

CreateFuture is fast becoming the UK’s most recognisable digital consultancy, with years of experience building digital products and services for major organisations whilst putting our people first. We have offices in the centre of Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, and London as well as remote employees located throughout the country. We are a team of creators - whether that’s code, project plans, go to market strategies, culture initiatives, marketing campaigns, large language models or people policies. Together, with our clients, we create the future.

This has seen us collaborate and partner across a multitude of industries and sectors, with the likes of PayPal, adidas, Natwest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, to name just a few. Our reputation as a partner determined to deliver high-quality, robust and thoughtful products has enabled us to scale to over 500 people in the last couple of years, and it is our amazing people - along with the safe, supportive and friendly culture we have built - that makes CreateFuture a great place to work.

Our Tech: We develop web and mobile applications in a variety of different languages and frameworks, with AWS as our primary cloud platform. Our CI/CD infrastructure varies with what makes sense — we have to balance customer requirements with making sure we have the right tools for the job and you will be an integral part of influencing these choices of technology.

The Role:

• Developing idiomatic Kotlin services, including RESTful APIs and interaction with databases with a focus on secure, readable, maintainable and well-tested code.
• Integrating with third-party APIs such as payment gateways.
• Being an advocate for engineering best practice within your project team.
• Help to grow our engineering function by participating in initiatives designed to increase our technical capabilities.
• Collaborating with the full project team (including BAs, QAs and members of the client team) to provide the best solutions to our clients.
• Professional handling of difficult client communications for specific issues.
• Being able to define and oversee the technical implementation of a client project.

Requirements:

• You have strong knowledge of API development using Kotlin, including ORM frameworks, authorization/authentication and instrumentation.
• You actively facilitate and encourage knowledge sharing within the team and wider department.
• You advocate for best engineering practices such as code reviews, paired programming, and automated tests.
• You are familiar with designing applications to run as containers within Kubernetes, AWS cloud services and CI/CD.

Next steps: Our Talent Acquisition team aim to respond to all applications within a reasonable timeframe, regardless of if we are progressing with your application. Our interview process includes a 30-minute recruiter call and a 1-hour technical assessment.

We believe that representative teams made up of people with different backgrounds, skills, and points of view help us build the best workplace possible, and enable us to create genuinely innovative, broadly useful products. We are committed to our goal of creating the most inclusive workplace possible. If you need additional support or accommodation during the application process, please don’t hesitate to let us know.