Back-end (Kotlin) Engineer #8613

Purpose of the job:

Our client is a US company that operates as a financial lender of installment loans for consumers to use at the point of sale to finance a purchase and helps people to get consumer credits in a transparent and friendly way. Engineering organization is focused on creating robust, modern micro-services applications implemented in Python and Kotlin. The “Offers” team brings awareness to the product via promotional messaging, monetizes transactions (with affiliate reporting), improves product discovery (supporting offers/deals on merchant/item level) for better user experience, and directs users to the checkout funnel. That also requires ingesting data from 3rd-party providers on a periodic basis into the system via API using Airflow.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work in close contact with team members and project stakeholders on the client’s site using Scrum.
• Take an active role in architectural discussions
• Implement BE functionality
• Integrate with partners via API to ingest data
• Refactor codebase to increase the reliability and performance of a solution
• Cover code with a sufficient number of tests

EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

MUST HAVE:

• 3 years’ experience with Kotlin/Java development
• Good knowledge of junit, mockito, SQL
• AWS stack is desired
• Experience in building reliable, high-available, distributed architectures
• Experience in Microservice architecture and its patterns
• Strong troubleshooting experience
• At least intermediate level of English skills

WOULD BE A PLUS:

• Hands on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Understanding of Financial sector and Global Finance
• Python, Airflow