Mid-Senior Back-End Engineer Java or Kotlin

Our client is a UK-based product FinTech company with an innovative own product – an active and successful finance intelligence platform, advising high-wealth people on wealth management, assets, and financial balance.
The company just set up its new Bulgarian branch and is enhancing its own team. We are looking to hire a skilled remote working Mid-Senior Back-End Java Software Engineer to join the successful team and to contribute to further progress.

Role Overview:

In this role you will be responsible for the design and implementation of the event-driven microservices architecture, bringing the responsiveness, efficiency, scalability, robustness and security of the system up to the next level.
Main Responsibilities
•    Take the ownership of core system services, continuously improve the quality of the services by refactoring the architectural design and applying state-of-the-art technologies
•    Establish and promote best practices in terms of the software lifecycle and QA, develop software solutions in key business areas.
•    Contribute to the technical roadmap and bridge existing gaps by bringing on board extensive knowledge and skills on Cloud-native event-driven microservice architecture
•    Collaborate with Product and Data teams to streamline the existing business processes and data flows
•    Collaboration with the Head of DevOps to consolidate the existing software infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines
•    Document, demonstrate and disseminate solutions by technical reports, diagrams, and blogs/vlogs
 

Experience Required
•    4+ years of experience as a professional software engineer using Java
•    A track record of successfully delivering software projects using Service-Oriented, Cloud-based and event-driven techniques
•    In-depth knowledge and skills in the Spring framework, including Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, and Spring Security
•    Extensive experience in using RDBMS and NoSQL databases
•    Extensive experience in using Apache Kafka
•    Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
•    Familiarity with Jenkins based automated CI/CD pipelines
•    Familiarity with static code analysis, TDD/BDD, exception handling, and monitoring and alerting facilities, such as Sonarqube, Pact, Cucumber, Sentry, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana and PagerDuty
•    Familiarity with project management tools 
•    Excellent presentation, oral and written communication skills
•    Strength in problem solving and issue-resolution with good attention to detail

Nice to have OR willing to learn:
•    Kotlin

Personal Characteristics
•    Strongly motivated and sets demanding standards for personal excellence
•    Autonomous self-starter and highly driven, able to lead large teams and initiatives with limited oversight
•    Effective collaborator with other team members
•    Independent thinker, inquisitive, eager to improve and learn
•    Confident being part of a small team that is building a business
•    Communicates rapidly, openly, inclusively and efficiently
•    Structured thought process and clear communication
 

Benefits & Perks:
•    Highly competitive salary 
•    Potential for equity participation 
•    25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
•     Work from home 
•    Ability to influence project technologies; 
•    Exceptional team of experienced and motivated individuals from a range of industries.