Senior Backend Engineer (Java/Kotlin)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Java/Kotlin): Building and evolving internal platforms that power recipe creation and menu planning for a meal-kit delivery company with an accent on simplifying complex architecture, improving automation, and evolving data-heavy, event-driven systems. Focus on designing, building, and maintaining backend services within a microservices architecture and migrating a core internal tool.

Location: Central Europe

Company

hirify.global partners with HelloFresh, one of the world’s leading meal-kit delivery companies, to build and evolve internal engineering platforms.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain backend services within a microservices architecture.
• Contribute to the migration of a core internal tool to an internal platform.
• Develop and evolve data-heavy, event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Design and maintain APIs and integrations between multiple internal services.
• Work with containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Ensure code quality through testing, code reviews, and documentation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience in a microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in Golang or in Java with the ability to work in Kotlin.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and experience working with modern deployment pipelines.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message brokers such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Proficiency in working with relational databases and understanding of data modeling and data flow.
• Strong knowledge of software design and testing methodologies, including TDD, BDD, DDD, and distributed system patterns.
• Experience across the full development lifecycle, from writing unit and integration tests to profiling, tuning, and deploying distributed applications.
• Strong problem-solving skills and clear English communication in a distributed team environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid Vacation, Sick Days, and Floating Holidays.
• Sport/Insurance Compensation.
• English Classes.
• Charity.
• Training Compensation.