Lead Engineer - Payments Platform Modernisation
The Trust, Cheap, City and County of the City of London
Lead Engineer - Payments Platform Modernisation
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The Trust, Cheap, City and County of the City of London
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 4 days ago, 2 Jun | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.
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Full Job Description
We are supporting a major UK financial services organisation on a significant payments modernisation programme and are seeking an experienced Lead Engineer with strong Kotlin expertise to help drive the transformation of critical payment services and platforms. This confidential engagement focuses on modernising payment gateway capabilities, API platforms, orchestration services, developer tooling, and in-person payments infrastructure. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping the technical direction of the programme while contributing hands-on to the design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native solutions.
ResponsibilitiesLead the design and development of next-generation payment gateway capabilities using KotlinDrive the modernisation of API and orchestration platformsProvide technical leadership across both discovery and delivery phasesDefine architecture, engineering standards, and best practicesMentor engineering teams and support technical decision-makingWork closely with product, architecture, and business stakeholdersContribute deep payments domain knowledge to solution design and deliveryHelp shape the long-term technology roadmap for the payments platformKey Skills EssentialStrong commercial experience building backend platforms in KotlinExperience leading engineering teams and delivering complex distributed systemsPayment gateway, payments platform, or transaction processing experienceAPI design and development experienceFinancial services or highly regulated industry experienceStrong understanding of modern software architecture and engineering practicesAbility to provide technical
leadership in large-scale transformation programmesDesirableJava experience (legacy platform integration and migration a bonus)TypeScriptExperience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, and event-driven systemsExposure to developer platforms and engineering enablement initiativesThis is an excellent opportunity to join a high-profile payments transformation programme where Kotlin is at the heart of the modernisation strategy, helping to build the next generation of payment capabilities within a leading financial services environment.