Senior/Lead Kotlin Engineer

N-iX is looking for a Lead/Senior Kotlin Engineer to join our team.

Our customer is a fintech company that provides flexible buy-now-pay-later solutions, enabling consumers to split purchases into transparent, interest-free, or interest-based payments. The customer's Platform team is responsible for managing critical services that are essential to the success and sustainability of the organisation. In simple terms, the team handles transactional communication send-outs to customers via email, SMS, and push notifications. These services demand attention to detail, proactive maintenance, and swift response times to ensure seamless operations. The recent high-priority initiatives include re-architecture/platform modernisation, high availability, and internationalisation efforts; these are vital for our organisation's growth and competitiveness in the market. These initiatives require dedicated expertise and resources to execute efficiently and effectively.

Main Responsibilities:

• Design and develop a robust and extensible Kotlin framework and platform

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code that complies with our coding standards

• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of the framework/platform

• Identify and correct bottlenecks and errors

• Help to maintain code quality, organization, and automation.

• Create and maintain technical documentation for the framework/platform

Role Requirements:

• At least 5 years of proficiency in Kotlin or Java

• Deep experience with the Spring Framework 

• Reactive tools experience (Project Reactor)

• Knowledge of different communication protocols such as REST, GraphQL, gRPC

• Experience with distributed systems

• Familiarity with tracing, metrics, and monitoring best practices

• Experience in creating frameworks and platforms for other developers 

• Proficiency in Maven or similar tools 

• Familiarity with NoSQL databases 

• Very good spoken and written knowledge of the English language (C1)