We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer (Java/Kotlin) to join our Invest team at our European fintech startup. Our startup serves more than 500,000 customers across Europe and develops banking products for customers having 500+ microservices on board.
The ideal candidate for this role will be a passionate and knowledgeable engineer who is comfortable developing new features and services as well as maintaining existing codebase. The candidate should have a strong background in software engineering and computer science with a particular focus on developing robust and reliable solutions.
We are using modern stack of technologies and platforms like PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Gitlab CI, Prometheus, Grafana.
Responsibilities:
- Provide ongoing support for existing trading products.
- Actively contribute to specifying new products within the platform.
- Propose solutions to enhance platform observability, fault tolerance, and operational control.
- Gather technical requirements and describe technical tasks derived from them.
- Engage in effective communication with partners.
- Track assigned projects' progress.
- Collaborate with adjacent teams to develop comprehensive cross-team solutions for products.
- Expertise in developing applications using Kotlin, and bonus if you have Java skills.
- Masterful understanding of Coroutines functionality to drive efficient asynchronous programming.
- Prior experience in Spring framework development.
- Highly desirable familiarity with Kubernetes and Helm for efficient deployment and management of applications.
- Profound knowledge in building distributed applications using microservice architecture for robust and scalable solutions.
- Proficiency in gRPC and Kafka communication mechanisms to facilitate seamless data exchange.
- Fundamental understanding of the AWS ecosystem, leveraging its services for optimal application performance.
- Excellent communication skills and proactive engagement are a must.
- Bonus: If you have experience in investments, it's a valuable asset.
