Senior Java/Kotlin Engineer – 6 Month Rolling Contract – Sydney

Join a leading insurance organisation undergoing a large scale digital transformation, modernising core platforms and building out scalable, cloud native systems that support millions of customers across Australia. You’ll be working in a high performing engineering team delivering critical backend services and contributing to long term platform uplift.

What you’ll be working on:

• Designing and building scalable backend services using Java or Kotlin in a microservices architecture
• Developing event driven systems using Kafka to support real time insurance workflows such as claims and policy processing
• Contributing to platform modernisation across AWS using containerisation and cloud native patterns
• Building reusable components, frameworks and services to accelerate engineering delivery
• Driving best practice across code quality, testing, observability and system resilience
• Collaborating with product, architecture and engineering teams to deliver high quality solutions

What you’ll bring:

• Strong commercial experience with Java or Kotlin in enterprise environments
• Proven experience building microservices and event driven architectures
• Hands on experience with Kafka and distributed systems
• Strong exposure to AWS cloud and containerisation tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform
• Strong understanding of system design, scalability and fault tolerance
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work across cross functional teams

Why consider this role:

• Long term program of work with multiple years of runway
• Opportunity to work on large scale, high impact systems in insurance
• Modern tech stack with strong engineering standards
• Hybrid working model based in Sydney

• Designing and building scalable backend services using Java or Kotlin in a microservices architecture
• Developing event driven systems using Kafka to support real time insurance workflows such as claims and policy processing
• Contributing to platform modernisation across AWS using containerisation and cloud native patterns
• Building reusable components, frameworks and services to accelerate engineering delivery
• Driving best practice across code quality, testing, observability and system resilience
• Collaborating with product, architecture and engineering teams to deliver high quality solutions

• Java
• Kotlin
• Microservices
• Event-driven architectures
• Kafka
• Distributed systems
• AWS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• System design
• Scalability
• Fault tolerance
• Communication skills
• Cross-functional team collaboration

• Strong commercial experience with Java or Kotlin in enterprise environments
• Proven experience building microservices and event driven architectures
• Hands on experience with Kafka and distributed systems
• Strong exposure to AWS cloud and containerisation tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform
• Strong understanding of system design, scalability and fault tolerance
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work across cross functional teams