Kotlin Developer

Deutsche Bank is a global banking business with strong roots in Germany and operations in over 70 countries. Their large but focused footprint gives an established position in Europe plus a significant presence in the Americas and Asia Pacific. There are four business divisions: the Corporate Bank, the Investment Bank, the Private Bank and the Asset Manager DWS. There are also a number of highly skilled functions performing key management tasks.

'Together we're sharing new perspectives and transforming what it means to be a bank.'

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

We partner with Deutsche Bank to support their contingent recruitment processes. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

On behalf of Deutsche Bank, we are looking for a Kotlin Developer for a 6 month contract based in London.

Purpose of the role:

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.

The skills you'll need:

• Strong commercial experience building Back End services in Kotlin
• Experienced with event sourced and event driven architecture
• Deep experience withXP 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

Our values define the working environment we strive to create - diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.

We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We 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.

AMS's payroll service is in partnership with Giant, we have worked with them for many years and have good processes in place to ensure you get the best service. If you are successful in your application for this role, your contract will be via Giant. For more information on Giant, please follow this link: https://ams-giant-paye-introduction.

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