Contract Software Engineer (Java / Kotlin) - #2188979

Contract Senior Software Engineer – React / Typescript / Java - Manchester - 6 months £600 per day (Inside IR35)

Senior Software Engineer, with strong frontend skills, with React and Typescript, and strong backend skills with Java, is required by a leading ecommerce company based in Manchester.

This is a hands-on senior contract role. You'll own complex integration flows, define how a new team works, and put proper engineering foundations in place

What you'll be doing

• Designing and building backend services and APIs in Java (Spring Boot or similar), on Kubernetes with CI/CD
• Designing and building compelling and attractive frontend artifacts with React and Tyepscript
• Owning end-to-end connectivity flows
• Building reusable connectors and tooling to make onboarding cheaper and faster
• Leading design discussions, writing clear design docs, and reviewing code across the team

Required skills and experience

• Strong Senior software engineer experience
• Excellent skills with Java, Spring, Boot
• Excellent skills with Javascript, React, Tyepscript
• Strong distributed systems experience
• Cloud-native development (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD; AWS or similar)
• Kafka / message queues / event-driven architecture
• Strong communication skills

This is a contract role offering a daily rate between £550 - £600 per day (Inside IR35) for an initial 6 months with potential to extend