Senior Backend Engineer KotlinSpring

Location: Preferably in the Barcelona area and open to hybrid working but fully remote candidates will be considered.

About Kognia: Kognia Sports Intelligence is on a mission to revolutionize football performance analysis through cuttingedge technology and deep insights into the game. Based in Barcelona and backed by industry giants including Xavi Hernndez and Iker Casillas we are a startup with a passionate team striving to bring actionable insights to coaches players and sports enthusiasts.

The Opportunity: Were looking for a strong Backend Engineer to join our team in a period of growth and help us deliver football insights and shape the future of our technology.

Experience level: Three or more years of experience in backend development or related areas.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of the Kognia platform in particular our Kotlin/Spring Boot API backend but also other components as team needs and skills dictate.
• Improve software quality by identifying issues and opportunities for enhancements and implementing best practices for reliable maintainable testable and scalable solutions.
• Participate in architecture discussions domain modeling and other team decisionmaking.
• Investigate new technologies and approaches as needed.
• Provide code review and participate in other company activities such as recruitment professional development and engineering operations.

Skills and qualifications

Required

• Strong experience in Spring framework (Spring Boot MVC).
• Strong experience in JVM languages and tooling. Naturally Kotlin is preferred but if youre a Java developer curious about Kotlin we hope to hear from you too!
• Database experience and working with abstraction layers in JVM (e.g. JDBC).
• Handson experience with best practices in testing and developing with clean code regardless of stack.
• Ability to adapt to a fastpaced changing agile environment.
• Excellent team player with strong verbal and written communication skills in English.

Preferred

• Experience with Spring Boot in Kotlin specifically.
• Knowledge of eventdriven architecture Kafka and associated ecoystem (e.g. KStreams).
• Interest/familiarity with software design patterns software architecture domaindriven design etc.
• DevOps mindset comfortable with CI/CD cloud environments and Kubernetes.
• Other useful stacks for miscellaneous contributions: JavaScript (TypeScript React) and Python.