Kody is seeking a talented Backend Engineer specializing in Kotlin to join our innovative team in Hong Kong. As a key member of our engineering team, you will create robust and scalable backend solutions that power our fintech applications, ensuring a seamless experience for our users.
Your expertise in Kotlin will drive the development of vital backend services, integrating with various APIs and databases while adhering to best practices for software development. You will collaborate closely with our product and frontend teams to deliver high-quality features that align with our product roadmap.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code for our backend services.
- Implement server-side logic and APIs, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to front-end requests.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features while ensuring alignment with product requirements.
- Troubleshoot and debug applications, optimize performance, and implement security measures to protect data and maintain system integrity.
- Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle, from design to deployment, and participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and efficiency.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices to continually improve our development processes.
Kody thrives on innovative ideas and solutions, and you’ll play a crucial role in helping us redefine the financial technology space.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Backend Engineer or similar role, with a strong focus on Kotlin.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns.
- Experience with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
- Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and software development methodologies such as Agile.
- Familiarity with cloud services and deployment environments (e.g., AWS, GCP).
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive mindset.
- Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Prior experience in the fintech industry is a plus.
Benefits
- We're a fast growing, exciting company within a rapidly developing industry. You'll be surrounded by super ambitious individuals who think really big.
- What we offer: 🎁
- 31 days of annual leave per year (inc. national holidays) 🌴
- Health and Dental Insurance 🏥
- Regular team socials (office and out of office) 🎉
- Great office location in Admiralty 🌆
Top Skills
What We Do
Kody is on a mission to make in-person payment acceptance easy. Today, paying in person presents common problems for businesses, such as high costs, long queues, and limited choice of payment methods. Kody fully integrates the payment ecosystem. This way, businesses can offer customers more control over their payment choices to make transactions quicker and simpler.
Founded by a small group of final-year high school students and launched in July 2022, 24-year-old founder Yoyo Chang (CEO) studied at the University of Cambridge & York whilst raising US$10M. Today, Kody's platform is growing to connect millions of end-users with venues all over the world.
