Senior Back-End Engineer (Java OR Kotlin)

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

The company is setting up its new Bulgarian branch and is building its own team and is looking to hire a skilled remote working Senior Software Engineer Java/Kotlin to join the successful team and to contribute to the further progress.

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, 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, 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 by technical reports, diagrams, and blogs/vlogs

• Support and develop junior and mid-level software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities (20% of the working load)

Desired Profile:

• 7+ years of experience as a professional software engineer using Kotlin or Java programming language (willing to learn Kotlin)

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

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

• Extensive experience on using RDBMS and NoSQL databases

• Extensive experience on 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

• Fluent in English.

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

• Non-hierarchical and ego-free

• Communicates rapidly, openly, inclusively and efficiently

• Structured thought process and clear communication

Benefits

• Great salary

• Potential for equity participation

• 25 days holiday

• Flexibility for working from home

• 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 scheduled

4. Offer

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IESF Bulgaria is an international recruitment agency (license N: 2441 / 18.01.2018).

Only short-listed applicants are going to be contacted.