Lead Developer - FinTech - Java, Kotlin, AI, Cloud - €100,000+

Lead Developer - FinTech - Java, Kotlin, AI, Cloud - €100,000+

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.