N-iX is looking for a Lead/Senior Java Engineer with Kotlin skills 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.
- Own and deliver quarterly goals by leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems while ensuring team support throughout delivery.
- Collaborate across the product development lifecycle with product management, design, and analytics to participate in ideation and articulate technical constraints.
- Drive decision-making and risk assessment by partnering on strategic technical choices that properly consider trade-offs and business impact.
- Proactively identify and resolve systemic issues across projects, processes, and technology, advocating for and leading the implementation of solutions.
- Ensure operational excellence and availability by creating and monitoring metrics, supporting "keep the lights on" efforts, and participating in an on-call rotation.
- Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting high standards for code reviews and design, and advocating for best practices through technical writing and talks.
- Mentor engineering talent by providing actionable feedback, guidance, and leading by example to grow the team's capabilities.
Role Requirements:
- At least 5 years of proficiency in Kotlin with extensive experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale
- Deep experience with distributed systems and high-availability architectures
- Experience in technical leadership in system design, with a proven ability to deliver significant features using elegant, simple, and extensible designs
- Strong infrastructure knowledge, including technologies such as AWS, MySQL/DynamoDB, and Kubernetes
- Proficiency in large-scale codebase management, utilizing a suite of tools and practices that ensure safe and efficient technical changes
- Experience in operational monitoring, including the use of metrics and tracing to maintain system health
- Excellent collaboration skills for effective partnership with global, cross-functional engineering teams
- Well spoken and written knowledge of the English language (C1)
We offer*:
- Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
- A competitive salary and good compensation package
- Personalized career growth
- Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
- Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
- Education reimbursement
- Memorable anniversary presents
- Corporate events and team buildings
- Other location-specific benefits
*not applicable for freelancers
Skills Required
- At least 5 years of Kotlin experience
- Extensive experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale
- Deep experience with distributed systems and high-availability architectures
- Technical leadership experience in system design
- Proven ability to deliver significant features using elegant, simple, and extensible designs
- Strong infrastructure knowledge, including AWS, MySQL or DynamoDB, and Kubernetes
- Experience managing large-scale codebases using safe and efficient technical practices
- Experience with operational monitoring, metrics, and tracing
- Excellent collaboration skills with global, cross-functional engineering teams
- Well-spoken and written English at C1 level
What We Do
N-iX is a global software solutions and engineering services company that helps world’s leading organizations turn challenges into lasting business value, operational efficiency, and revenue growth using advanced technology. Whether you need to build a custom solution, modernize your digital product or acquire extra tech expertise - we have the experience and capabilities to ensure your success. With over 2,000 professionals in 25 countries across Europe and the Americas, N-iX offers expert solutions in cloud, data analytics, embedded software, IoT, AI, machine learning, and other tech domains. Being in business for over two decades, we have worked with dozens of industry-leading enterprises and Fortune 500 companies creating value across a wide variety of sectors, including finance, manufacturing, supply chain, retail, e-commerce, healthcare, and more. Our unique combination of business domain expertise and technical know-how enables us to effectively collaborate with ISVs, tech companies, and enterprises of all sizes. Thanks to the strong tech ecosystem and partnerships with AWS, GCP, Microsoft, SAP, OpenText, Snowflake, and others, we bring extra speed, scale and efficiency to more than 160 organizations across the globe. N-iX is recognized by numerous industry awards, such as CRN Solution Provider 500, Global Outsourcing 100 by IAOP, ISG Provider Lens™, Modern Application Development services providers by Forrester, etc
