Kotlin Developer

  • Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main
  • 09/06/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

On behalf of Deutsche Bank, we are looking for a Kotlin Developer for a 6 month contract based in the bank's London office on a hybrid working model of 3 days per week in the office and 2 from home.

Key Responsibilities

DB require two senior, experienced Kotlin engineers to support and extend a cloud-hosted platform used for bookbuilding issuances across Investment Banking Capital Markets. These roles will join a high-calibre London front-office engineering team building a new issuance platform to replace a legacy bookbuilder.

This is a hands on engineering role with strong emphasis on Extreme Programming (XP) practices, including mob programming, test-first development, and continuous refactoring. Engineers are expected to contribute across development, integration, and production support, working closely as a team to maintain a high standard of code quality and system reliability.

Skills and Qualifications
  • Strong commercial experience building backend services in Kotlin
  • Experienced with event sourced and event driven architecture
  • Deep experience with XP practices, including:
    • Mob programming as a primary way of working
    • Test-driven development (TDD)
    • Continuous refactoring and clean code discipline
  • Cloud experience in CARE Cloud /GCP, including:
    • GKE and / or Cloud Run
    • Cloud SQL, Memorystore
    • Artifact Registry, Cloud Logging
    • Key Management
  • CI/CD and SDLC experience in a regulated / enterprise environment
  • Comfortable working in production systems with high availability and correctness requirements

Deutsche Bank's values define the working environment they strive to create - diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. They embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. They build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage their people to develop to their full potential.

The Bank promotes good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. They welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs, and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

This client will only accept workers operating via a PAYE engagement model.