Senior Kotlin/JVM Engineer

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🕒 December 22, 2025

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Lendable

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

Finance • Fintech • B2C

Lendable is a loan management company that provides fast loans with fair rates. Customers can see their loan rates before applying without impacting their credit score and can receive money the same day. Lendable emphasizes transparency, safety, and customer satisfaction, with strong customer reviews and regulatory compliance under the FCA. The company offers loans ranging from £1,000 to £25,000 with flexible repayment terms and competitive APR rates.

📋 Description

• Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1. • Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo. • Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting. • As we continue to build upon the diversity of our team we are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring on board a Senior Kotlin/JVM Engineer. • Help shape our approach to delivering elegant solutions to complex engineering challenges as we continue to grow. • Building and integrating new API’s, tuning our existing services as they scale, supporting our expansion of new products and supporting services in the US.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong commercial Kotlin or JVM based engineering experience (willingness to work with Kotlin) • An ability to write simple, clean code • Experience and understanding of databases; relational databases are a must, NoSql would be nice too • Be able to quickly understand complex, financial business domains • Understand different software architectures rapidly • Understands abstraction and interpolation • Able to write comprehensive, automated tests at all levels of the pyramid • Understanding of the Kanban agile methodology; not a deal breaker if you don’t. • Someone who can get along with others and build relationships • Someone who wants to continually learn, improve and collaborate • Someone who can solve problems on their own but also knows when to go to their peers for help • Someone who is a rational thinker and is aware of the ‘why’ behind the way they do things • Someone who is a pragmatist who can sensibly weigh the tradeoffs between code quality and delivery.

🏖️ Benefits

• Best-in-class compensation, including equity. • You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days, those based in the UK come together IRL at our Shoreditch office in London to be together, build and exchange ideas. • Enjoy a fully stocked kitchen with everything you need to whip up breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office every Tuesday-Thursday. • We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance. • We're an equal-opportunity employer and are looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London.