Software Engineer | Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, API

Software Engineer | Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, API

Initial 6 Month contract
Up to £77 per hour - Inside IR35 (37.5 hrs/week)
Hybrid working- 2 days per week onsite in Manchester 

About the Client
Digital Skills are working with a global technology business that is investing heavily in scaling its connectivity platform within a specific business unit. The organisation is focused on building robust integrations that support high-volume, Real Time transactions across a wide partner ecosystem.

About the Role
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Contract Software Engineer to contribute to a growing connectivity team. You will play a key role in designing and building Back End services and integrations, working across modern cloud-native technologies in a collaborative, fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Back End services and APIs using Java or Kotlin in a Spring Boot environment
• Build and enhance connectivity flows for products, availability, reservations and webhooks
• Integrate with third-party APIs, handling authentication, error management and data transformation
• Contribute to system reliability through logging, monitoring, alerting and tracing
• Support incident management, including root cause analysis and continuous improvement
• Apply distributed system best practices such as retries, timeouts and idempotency
• Collaborate with product, commercial and operations teams to translate requirements into solutions
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions and knowledge sharing within the team

Desired Skills and Experience

• Strong Back End development experience in Java or Kotlin
• Experience with Spring Boot or similar frameworks
• Proven experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and integrating external systems
• Solid understanding of cloud-native environments, including Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with distributed system challenges such as partial failures and resilience patterns
• Knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL
• Familiarity with Kafka, messaging systems or event-driven architectures
• Experience using observability tools such as logs, metrics and dashboards

Summary of the Best Candidate
The ideal candidate will be a hands-on Back End engineer with at least 3 years of experience delivering production-ready services in Java or Kotlin. You will have strong API integration experience and a good understanding of cloud-native development and distributed system design.

This role suits someone comfortable working in a collaborative, evolving environment, who can take ownership of technical deliverables while contributing to improving platform reliability and scalability. Experience within integrations or marketplace environments would be advantageous but is not essential.