Senior Backend Engineer

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Backend Engineer with proficiency in Kotlin, preferably combined with Ktor or a similar backend framework. The candidate will become an integral part of our team working with sustainable consumer products and payments globally, and we expect technical independence on a high skill level. Furthermore, the candidate will work with end-to-end autonomy which means a good understanding of build-automation tools, version control tools and CI/CD is needed. The perfect candidate has worked with multi-regional backends, where the built system is running in multiple clusters with different time zones, on several datacenters, globally. Experience with Kubernetes is a requirement.

Responsibilities:
· Develop and maintain robust and scalable backend services primarily using Kotlin and Ktor.

· Engage in architectural discussions and contribute to the design of a multi-regional backend.

· Maintain and manage SQL and NoSQL databases.

· Maintain and manage search clusters such as OpenSearch.

· Work on our payment & product platform and ensure fault tolerance.

· Set up CI/CD pipelines using tools like Github, Gradle & CircleCI.

· Monitor built services using tools like kubectl and services such as Sentry and Datadog.

· Mentor junior engineers, guiding them on best practices.

Required Qualifications:
· 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience.

· 3+ years of developing in Kotlin, with extensive understanding of modern and asynchronous backend frameworks.

· Fluent in some tool or language for version control, CI/CD and build automation.

· Knowledge of how to deploy, ingress, monitor and manage backend services in a Kubernetes cluster.

· Excellent communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.