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We work alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference while always putting people first.\nWe’re a team of creators. We write code, shape delivery, build go-to-market strategies, develop AI solutions and create the practices that support our people. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what’s not working and helping them to build the future. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years.\nOur UK Benefits \n35 days leave (including bank holidays). \nPrivate medical insurance.\nEnhanced parental and adoption leave. \nFinancial coaching + 5% pension match.\n40 hours of paid learning and development.\n View our full list of UK benefits.\nCreateFuture is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and has won Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row.\nJoin us on our journey. Let’s create tomorrow, together, today.\nAbout the role and team:\nSenior Backend Engineer\nBuild software that matters. Shape the future of engineering.\nWe're looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer who is passionate about building scalable, high-quality software and helping teams grow. This is more than a hands-on engineering role-you'll influence technical direction, mentor other engineers, drive architectural decisions, and help us embed AI and automation into the way we deliver value for our clients.\nYou'll thrive here if you enjoy solving complex problems, challenging assumptions, collaborating openly, and taking pride in delivering software that makes a real business impact.\nWhat You'll Do\nAs a Senior Backend Engineer, you will:\nDesign, build and maintain scalable, secure and resilient backend systems using Kotlin and Spring Boot\nLead technical design and architectural discussions, ensuring solutions are maintainable, performant and aligned with best practices.\nDevelop and evolve RESTful APIs with a focus on security, versioning, performance and reliability.\nChampion engineering excellence through clean code, automated testing, documentation and code reviews.\nDrive delivery across multiple initiatives while balancing speed, quality and commercial value.\nMentor engineers through coaching, pairing and constructive feedback, helping raise capability across the team.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams to solve problems together and deliver outstanding outcomes for clients.\nResearch and evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks and AI capabilities that improve how we build software.\nPromote automation wherever possible, removing repetitive work so teams can focus on solving meaningful problems.\nContribute to a culture of continuous learning, innovation and technical excellence.\nWhat You'll Bring\nTechnical Expertise\nYou'll have strong commercial experience with:\nSpring Boot and the wider Spring ecosystem\nSpring Data JPA / Hibernate\nSpring Security including OAuth2 and JWT\nREST API design and implementation\nMicroservices and distributed system design\nSQL databases with strong query optimisation skills\nNoSQL databases\nMessaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ\nDocker and containerised application development\nCloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)\nCI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI\nGit and modern software development workflows\nObservability tooling including logging, metrics and distributed tracing\nComprehensive testing across unit, integration and functional layers\nMaven or Gradle\nJava concurrency and JVM performance fundamentals\nWhat Success Looks Like\nYou'll demonstrate:\nTechnical Excellence & Craft Mastery\nWrite clean, maintainable and highly optimised code.\nSet high standards for quality, testing and documentation.\nCoach others in engineering best practices and modern development techniques.\nArchitectural Leadership\nDesign scalable, resilient and secure systems.\nMake thoughtful architectural decisions that support long-term maintainability.\nEvaluate new technologies and guide adoption where they add value.\nCommercial Delivery\nLead projects from discovery through delivery.\nUnderstand client challenges and translate them into practical technical solutions.\nDeliver outcomes that create measurable business value.\nLeadership & Collaboration\nLead engineering ceremonies and facilitate productive technical discussions.\nMentor and develop engineers across the team.\nCommunicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nFoster an environment where knowledge sharing and continuous improvement are part of everyday work.\nAI & Innovation\nExplore and implement AI-driven approaches that improve engineering efficiency.\nChampion responsible adoption of AI across delivery teams.\nHelp shape our engineering practices for the future.\nWhat we’ll offer you:\nWe trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do.\nWe offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.\nWe trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.\nOur hiring process\nWe try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process.\nIt usually looks like this:\nCall with our Talent Acquisition Team \nRole specific capability interview \nDepending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens.\nInclusion at CreateFuture \nWe believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work.\nIf you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. 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