Lead Software Engineer; JVM​/Kotlin

Lead Software Engineer (Kotlin)

💰 £110,000 - £130,000 + bonus + excellent Benefits

📍 Hybrid - 3 days onsite in Central London (Zone
1)

Want to manage a team that builds tech accelerating the move to clean, affordable energy?

Enjoy being hands-on and thrive in fast-growing, product-led environments?🌍🌱

Join a high‑calibre engineering team building modern, customer‑facing and energy‑focused systems in one of the UK's most exciting clean tech companies.

As the Technical Lead, you will manage a small pod while remaining hands‑on with day‑to‑day coding. You'll spearhead the design, architecture and implementation of complex systems and features and work closely with cross‑functional stakeholders to define technical requirements and translate them into clear, actionable plans.

• Design, build and evolve platform architecture across distributed systems.
• Lead a small squad (technical leadership and people management)
• Contribute to backend design using Kotlin (or JVM), supporting a polyglot mindset.
• Collaborate across engineering to improve practices, tooling, and system design.
• Grow and shape your team

• Kotlin (JVM), distributed systems, microservices, CI/CD
• Cloud‑native platforms (AWS/GCP), modern engineering culture

• Deep JVM/backend experience;
  Kotlin a bonus, but not required.
• Strong systems thinker with a track record of architectural leadership.
• Experience scaling production systems in fast‑moving product environments.
• Experience with leading, technical ownership and people management

Want to work on complex problems with real‑world environmental impact?

Apply now and help shape the future of clean energy at scale 🚗🔌