Lead Developer - FinTech - Java, Kotlin, AI, Cloud

Germany’s leading company in the field of financial advice is continuing to invest heavily in its software engineering teams.

They’re looking for an experienced Lead Developer to take technical leadership of a development team building the next generation of applications used by thousands of financial advisors and customers across Germany.

• Technical leadership role with genuine influence over architecture, engineering standards and technology decisions
• Modern engineering environment using the latest versions of Java, Kotlin, React, Angular and cloud technologies
• Work in a team that actively embraces AI tools, automation and modern software development practices
• Travel tickets paid for, 32 days’ holiday, gym membership, health insurance and an additional pension scheme

What will you be doing?

• Taking technical leadership of a development team building modern microservices and web applications
• Designing scalable, cloud-native and event-driven solutions alongside the software architecture team
• Driving code quality through clean code, code reviews, automated testing and engineering best practices
• Coaching and mentoring developers while helping make key technical decisions
• Improving CI/CD, automation and developer experience and the ability to continuously deploy software

What they’re looking for

• Strong commercial experience with Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot
• Experience building complex enterprise applications using cloud-native and microservice architectures
• Previous experience providing technical leadership, coaching or mentoring to software developers
• Strong DevOps mindset with experience in CI/CD, automated testing and modern agile development

If you’re looking for a role where you can remain hands-on while leading developers, shaping architecture and influencing how modern software is built across a major organisation, we’d love to speak with you.