Senior Backend Engineer (Kotlin)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Kotlin): Building and optimizing high-availability and high-throughput backend solutions from scratch for a disruptive FinTech platform with an accent on event-driven architecture, API design, and scalability. Focus on solving non-trivial, complex coding puzzles, designing distributed systems, and ensuring 24/7 uptime.

Location: Hybrid (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Salary: €80,000–€100,000

Company

This well-funded scale-up, founded by FinTech gurus, is building a disruptive all-in-one platform to solve real-life problems for thousands of businesses.

What you will do

• Develop cutting-edge, highly-distributed, and high-throughput software solutions running 24/7.
• Solve fundamental problems and make an impact on product roadmap and design.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy new products and features from scratch.
• Work with modern technologies like Kotlin, Ktor, Kafka, GCP, and Event-Driven Architecture.
• Maintain a clean codebase following principles like clean coding, design patterns, and TDD.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Solid fundamentals in Computer Science, Data Structures, and Algorithms.
• Experience with modern backend languages like Kotlin and/or Java.
• Experience with system design.
• Strong communication skills and a team player mentality.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science.
• Experience with Kafka.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a small-scale tech company with significant impact potential.
• Opportunity to try new tech, attend conferences, and share ideas.
• Inspiring technical management in an engineer-friendly environment.
• Hybrid work model: 2 days remote, 3 days from the beautiful Amsterdam office.
• Stock options and 25 vacation days.
• Travel allowance and MacBook Pro provided.