[VDI] Full-Stack Engineer (Kotlin, TypeScript, React) — 3-Month Engagement

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The Role
Maintain and stabilize a legacy client application during a three-month engagement. Responsibilities include upgrading dependencies and frameworks, expanding backend and frontend unit tests, validating functionality, resolving compatibility issues, and collaborating with the client engineering team. The role uses Kotlin, Gradle, TypeScript, and React, with slightly greater backend emphasis. Candidates must work independently, communicate in English, ramp up quickly, and support a full-time remote engagement from Latin America.
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Company Description

We are Software Mind, an awesome team of engineers who are ready to ramp up any top-notch company’s projects! Our aim? To always be one step ahead. Become part of a multicultural company in constant growth with an excellent work environment certified by Great Place To Work!

Job Description

Software Mind is seeking a Full-Stack Engineers (Kotlin, TypeScript, React) for a full-time, three-month engagement supporting the maintenance of an existing client application.

This is a fully remote role open to candidates based in Latin America.

In addition to a competitive salary rate and a positive work environment, we are committed to delivering high-quality technology solutions. We also offer:

  • Flexible schedules and authentic work-life balance
  • Opportunities for continuing education
  • Payment in US Dollars
  • Laptop Provision

About the Role

You’ll help keep an application stable, secure, and functional after its planned retirement was postponed. Your work will focus on upgrading dependencies and frameworks, expanding unit test coverage, and resolving compatibility issues.

The role is split approximately evenly between backend and frontend, with a slightly greater backend emphasis, using Kotlin and Gradle alongside TypeScript and React. You’ll collaborate with the client’s engineering team and quickly get familiar with an existing codebase.

 

Main Responsibilities

  • Update and upgrade outdated libraries, dependencies, and frameworks to keep the application stable and secure.
  • Write and expand unit tests across backend and frontend components.
  • Validate application functionality after upgrades through thorough testing.
  • Identify and resolve issues introduced by dependency or framework changes.
  • Collaborate with the client's engineering team to align on priorities and progress.

Qualifications

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of full-stack development experience.
  • Strong English communication skills (B2 minimum) for collaboration with the client’s team.
  • Strong backend experience with Kotlin and Gradle.
  • Strong frontend experience with TypeScript and React.
  • Experience with dependency upgrades and framework version migrations.
  • Solid understanding of unit testing, with experience writing and maintaining tests.
  • Experience working with legacy codebases and the ability to ramp up quickly.
  • Ability to work independently and take ownership of assigned work.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
  • Availability to commit to a full-time, three-month engagement.

Additional Information

Nice to Have

  • Experience supporting end-of-life (EOL) applications or legacy modernization projects.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
  • Experience working in small, agile teams.

Skills Required

  • 8+ years of full-stack development experience
  • Strong English communication skills at B2 level or higher
  • Strong backend experience with Kotlin and Gradle
  • Strong frontend experience with TypeScript and React
  • Experience with dependency upgrades and framework version migrations
  • Experience writing and maintaining unit tests
  • Experience working with legacy codebases and ability to ramp up quickly
  • Ability to work independently and take ownership of assigned work
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field
  • Availability for a full-time, three-month engagement
  • Experience supporting end-of-life applications or legacy modernization projects
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
  • Experience working in small, agile teams

Software Mind Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Software Mind and has not been reviewed or approved by Software Mind.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Pay is considered competitive for core hiring markets, with “good salary” cited in multiple locales. Public salary snapshots provide a baseline that helps candidates assess offers and negotiations.
  • Flexible Benefits Remote or hybrid options are prominently highlighted, and a remote‑work program is publicly noted alongside positively cited work‑from‑home experiences. Flexibility around schedules and location is presented as part of the package.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Private medical care, language classes, sports/fitness support, and learning initiatives are listed for several Central/Eastern European locations, with occasional workation perks promoted. These lifestyle‑oriented offerings complement base pay and can enhance perceived total rewards.

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The Company
HQ: Kraków
1,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

Software Mind is a global digital transformation partner with operations throughout Europe, the US and LATAM. Driven by tech and empowered by people, we provide companies with software engineers and autonomous, cross-functional development teams who manage software life cycles from ideation to release and beyond. For over 20 years we’ve been enriching organizations with the talent they need to boost scalability, drive dynamic growth and bring disruptive ideas to life. Our top-notch engineering teams combine ownership with leading technologies, including cloud, AI, data science and embedded software to accelerate digital transformations and boost software delivery. A culture, driven by trust, that embraces openness, craves more and acts with respect enables our experts to create evolutive solutions that support scale-ups, unicorns and enterprise-level companies around the world.

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