Mid-Senior Back-End Java And/OR Kotlin Engineer

Our client is a UK-based finance consulting company with an innovative own product an active and successful finance intelligence platform, advising high-wealth people on wealth management, assets, and financial balance.

The company is expanding up its new Bulgarian branch, enhancing its own team, and is looking to hire a skilled remote working Mid-Senior Software Engineer Java and/or Kotlin to join the successful team and to contribute to the further progress.

Tasks

Role Overview:

In this role you will be responsible for the design and implementation of the event-driven microservices architecture, bringing the responsiveness, efficiency, scalability, robustness and security of the system up to the next level.

Main Responsibilities

Take the ownership of core system services, and continuously improve the quality of the services by refactoring the architectural design and applying state-of-the-art technologies

Establish and promote best practices in terms of the software lifecycle and QA, and develop software solutions in key business areas.

Contribute to the technical roadmap and bridge existing gaps by bringing on board extensive knowledge and skills on Cloud-native event-driven microservice architecture.

Collaborate with Product and Data teams to streamline the existing business processes and data flows

Collaboration with the Head of DevOps to consolidate the existing software infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines

Document, demonstrate, and disseminate solutions through technical reports, diagrams, and blogs/vlogs

Requirements

4+ years of experience as a professional software engineer using Java OR Kotlin programming language

A track record of successfully delivering software projects using Service-Oriented, Cloud-based and event-driven techniques

In-depth knowledge and skills in the Spring framework, including Spring boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud and Spring Security

Extensive experience in using RDBMS and NoSQL databases

Extensive experience in using Apache Kafka

Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes

Familiarity with Jenkins based automated CI/CD pipelines

Familiarity with static code analysis, TDD/BDD, exception handling, and monitoring and alerting facilities, such as Sonarqube, Pact, Cucumber, Sentry, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana and PagerDuty

Familiarity with project management tools

Excellent presentation, oral and written communication skills

Strength in problem solving and issue-resolution with good attention to detail

Personal Characteristics

Strongly motivated and sets demanding standards for personal excellence

Autonomous self-starter and highly driven, able to lead large teams and initiatives with limited oversight

Effective collaborator with other team members

Independent thinker, inquisitive, eager to improve and learn

Confident being part of a small team that is building a business

Communicates rapidly, openly, inclusively and efficiently

Structured thought process and clear communication

Benefits

Negotiate your desired salary range

Potential for equity participation

25 days holiday

Flexibility & fully remote working option

Your choice of equipment

Regular team events

Exceptional team of experienced and motivated individuals from a range of industries

Speed Hiring Process:

1. Intro Recruiter Call

2. Video Meeting with the CTO/Co-founder

3. If necessary, a second meeting will be arranged

4. Offer and Work Contract