Title: Senior Backend Kotlin Developer
Location: 18850 N 56th St Phoenix AZ 85054 (Hybrid 2-3X per week)
Job Description:
Digital Banking and Payments Team
The Digital Banking and Payments team is responsible for our Card Payments Processing and Digital Bank products. We are currently building platforms responsible for ACH Wire Bill Pay Zelle Debit Checking and Savings applications that allows teams to create products at scale and allow digital channels to deliver compelling experiences in a dramatically faster fashion
Were building a next-generation orchestration and automation platform to support thousands of business processes across the enterprise. This isnt about coding one-off automations - its about creating the platform APIs and orchestration primitives that other developer teams will use to define run and scale their business processes.
As a Backend Engineer youll be hands-on in Kotlin every day designing platform services integrating workflow orchestration frameworks and enabling GenAI-powered intent parsing and decision nodes. You need to understand complexity trade-offs and scaling.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build backend platform services in Kotlin for ingestion orchestration RBAC monitoring and developer tooling.
- Implement and optimize workflow orchestration frameworks (e.g. Temporal Cadence Camunda Argo).
- Provide scalable APIs and abstractions that empower other teams to build workflows on the platform.
- Integrate GenAI/NLP pipelines for intent parsing process matching and intelligent decisioning.
- Champion developer experience (DX) through tooling CI/CD improvements and observability.
- Mentor backend engineers lead design reviews and guide technical decisions.
- Collaborate closely with frontend product and process analysts to ensure platform adoption and impact.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering Data Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 10 years of backend engineering experience with strong Kotlin/JVM expertise.
- Proven track record building platforms frameworks or orchestration services (not just applications).
- Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal Cadence Camunda Argo or similar).
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems API design and event-driven architectures.
- Practical experience integrating GenAI/NLP into backend systems.
- Experience with RBAC/security models in multi-tenant or enterprise environments.
- Strong bias for action ability to thrive in lean teams inside large organizations and passion for delivering value quickly.
- Natural mentor with excellent communication skills; collaborates across functions and knows when to push back.