Lendable

Senior Kotlin/JVM Engineer

Lendable

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

KotlinNoSQL

About the role

  • Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1.
  • Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo.
  • Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting.
  • As we continue to build upon the diversity of our team we are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring on board a Senior Kotlin/JVM Engineer.
  • Help shape our approach to delivering elegant solutions to complex engineering challenges as we continue to grow.
  • Building and integrating new API’s, tuning our existing services as they scale, supporting our expansion of new products and supporting services in the US.

Requirements

  • Strong commercial Kotlin or JVM based engineering experience (willingness to work with Kotlin)
  • An ability to write simple, clean code
  • Experience and understanding of databases; relational databases are a must, NoSql would be nice too
  • Be able to quickly understand complex, financial business domains
  • Understand different software architectures rapidly
  • Understands abstraction and interpolation
  • Able to write comprehensive, automated tests at all levels of the pyramid
  • Understanding of the Kanban agile methodology; not a deal breaker if you don’t.
  • Someone who can get along with others and build relationships
  • Someone who wants to continually learn, improve and collaborate
  • Someone who can solve problems on their own but also knows when to go to their peers for help
  • Someone who is a rational thinker and is aware of the ‘why’ behind the way they do things
  • Someone who is a pragmatist who can sensibly weigh the tradeoffs between code quality and delivery.
Benefits
  • Best-in-class compensation, including equity.
  • You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days, those based in the UK come together IRL at our Shoreditch office in London to be together, build and exchange ideas.
  • Enjoy a fully stocked kitchen with everything you need to whip up breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office every Tuesday-Thursday.
  • We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance.
  • We're an equal-opportunity employer and are looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
KotlinJVMAPI integrationrelational databasesNoSQLautomated testingsoftware architectureabstractioninterpolationclean code
Soft skills
problem solvingcollaborationrelationship buildingcontinuous learningrational thinkingpragmatismadaptabilitycommunicationteamworkresourcefulness