Senior Software Engineer (Kotlin) - #1778977

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. And 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. Don’t just take our word for it though, we have been recognised by Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row - across a number of categories - and our employee exit rate is astonishingly low.

Join us on our journey… Let’s create something awesome, together, today.

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
  
  

What We’ll Offer You

At CreateFuture, we challenge ourselves to go beyond the obvious and we care deeply about our craft and customers. With us, you’ll have ambitious projects to sink your teeth into and plenty of opportunities to learn and grow. You’ll be part of our safe, supportive and friendly culture - that looks after you - and join our team of genuinely great people.

Our Benefits Include

• Total 35 days holiday (we have flexible bank holidays)
• Comprehensive private medical insurance
• Enhanced parental and adoption leave
• Up to 50% off an electric vehicle
• Pension - matched up to 5%
  
  

View our complete list of benefits here.

As this is a hybrid role, we’re looking for people within a commuting distance of our Leeds office and who are flexible to travel to client sites and CreateFuture regional offices. We are very flexible and trust you to manage your own schedule to balance face-to-face time with clients, colleagues and working from home.

We create and reinforce a culture that rewards employees’ impact, not just activity. We trust our employees to work autonomously and promote ownership across all levels.

Next Steps

Our TA team aims to respond to all applications within a reasonable timeframe, regardless of if we are progressing with your application.

Our Process

• 30-minute call with one of our Talent Acquisition Team
• 1-hour Technical Interview
• 30 or 60 minute Take home test OR Pair programming session
• 1-hour Values led interview
  
  

Our interview process is designed as an opportunity both for our interviewers to learn about your expertise, interests and motivations and for you to gain insights into CreateFuture, the role and the team. So, throughout the interview process you’ll meet a few people from our Engineering team as well as other colleagues from different parts of the business to help you get a well-rounded view of the role and life at CreateFuture.

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. As we strive to build an environment where everyone can thrive and be themselves, we will continue to investigate and challenge biases, while working to identify and remove obstacles to inclusion. If you need additional support or accommodation during the application process, please don’t hesitate to let us know.