AG Mid-Senior Back-End Engineer Java or Kotlin | SmartRecruiters

Our client is a UK-based product FinTech 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 just set up its new Bulgarian branch and is enhancing its own team. We are looking to hire a skilled remote working Mid-Senior Back-End Java Software Engineer to join the successful team and to contribute to further progress.

Relocation to Bulgaria will be supported, work visa and a free accommodation during the first month.

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

Experience Required

• 4+ years of experience as a professional software engineer using Java

• 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

Nice to have OR willing to learn:

• Kotlin

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 & Perks:

• Highly competitive salary

• Potential for equity participation

• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays

• Work from home

• Ability to influence project technologies;

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