Senior Kotlin Backend Developer

About the project: 

We are looking for Senior Kotlin Backend Developers for Stepwise, Warsaw-based Software House, who would like to join an engineering-oriented company. Currently for one of our clients from the USA we are looking for a well-skilled developer who would like to join a newly created Team. 

The project is a green-field digital insights platform for company from Market Reasearch industry.

Tech Stack: 

• Backend: Kotlin, Spring Boot, Confluent Kafka, Kafka Streams, Auth0, Redis, Postgres, MongoDB, Gradle, Redocly, Github Actions
• Testing: Kotest, Junit, Gatling
• Infrastructure: GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes (GKE), Helm, Docker
• Methodology: Hexagonal architecture (DDD)

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Requirements:

• Experience with Kotlin, and an interest in system architecture, caching techniques, REST APIs and data modeling.
• Experience working with relational databases such as Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
• Experience with modern web frameworks such as Spring, Quarkus, Micronaut
• Experience with Kubernetes, Rancher 
• Experience with GCP cloud services
• Experience in creating complex solutions
• Good knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• Willing to work in close cooperation with the Client
• Experience of working in Agile projects.
• Good knowledge of English (min. B2 level)
• Nice to have: Experience with prompt engineering, e.g. ChatGPT

Responsibilities:

• Developing new features of the Core of the System
• Creating Architecture Design based on workshop input
• Developing Application from scratch
• Participation in building Backend team for the project based on required skill set
• Participation in the demanding Code Review process
• Developing and improving automation of common repeatable tasks and processes
• Working closely with Client and Stepwise to improve our software delivery process
• Coordination of technical tasks with Frontend, Test Automation and Client team
• Identifying bottlenecks in the process and removing them (Daily, Retro, BrainStormings)
• Helping identifying problems in the system

More about Stepwise: 

• A great work environment with passionate and skilled people.
• Gentle and smooth introduction to the company.
• No procedures and other corporate “beauties”.
• A flat organization with no levels of middle management between staff.
• We operate mainly in the Netherlands, UK, France, Germany & Scandinavia.
• We have Office in Warsaw but we are happy to accept remote work as well :)
• We know what is Work-Life Balance by example.
• Free lunches, internal days celebrations and constant fun!

Still not convinced?

We invite you to our office. See how we work and talk to the team.