Junior Backend Kotlin Engineer

3 weeks ago


مصر, Egypt On-Hire Full time

Our client is a leading financial startup operating in North Africa. The company growth is impressive, currently the have thousands of users and we are constantly working on expanding and improving their services.

Are you a Kotlin engineer? Are you curious to help us rebuild a financial platform from scratch? Have you worked with microservices and monoliths or you would like to learn about their pros and cons?
We are looking for someone like that to provide an engineering edge to our team in Egypt and help us level up our backend technology
- Work closely with the Senior Kotlin Engineer as well as the rest of the team: CTO (15 years of exp), Platform Tech Lead (ex-Google, 10+ years of exp), software developers, Product Manager, QA testers and stakeholders across the company to define & develop the best in-class solutions
- Work in an Agile methodology, attend team retrospectives & workshops to promote continuous improvement
- Get involved in rewriting the existing **fintech platform **into Kotlin language
- Help design the backend architecture in Kotlin from scratch
- Assist the Senior Kotlin Engineer in deciding which parts should be microservices and which should not
- **Develop microservices in Kotlin along with the Senior Kotlin Engineer**:

- Collaborate with developers learning Kotlin from scratch
- Answer team questions and help to solve complex problems
- Learn about good design principles and patterns, processes & best practises
- Write clean testable code
- Develop automated unit tests to improve the quality of the codebase
- Report any security or compliance issues in the system
- Be eager to make things better by both proposing your own ideas for improvements and embracing better ideas from the others

**Requirements**:
We are looking for a person who:
Core requirements:

- wants to create great quality software with good test coverage
- **has 2+ years of experience as backend engineer**:

- **has 1 year of experience in Kotlin**:

- **speaks very good English**:

- likes to work in a team
- worked with relational databases, git and Postman
- has hands-on knowledge of using AWS and Docker or Kubernetes
- is curious and has a can-do attitude
- combines efficient work with good quality
- expects work to have a deeper meaning
- is able to work independently & collaborate with team members
- is bright, highly self-motivated and driven with a professional and positive approach
- is good at multitasking and staying organized in a dynamic work environment
- have knowledge and experience in** using of design patterns**:

- have 1+ year of experience in **developing scalable solutions **with high traffic
- appreciate working in Agile methodology
- have experience with using CI/CD pipelines to test and deploy your code
- have experience working with Sumo Logic and Sentry
- have a test-driven development mindset

Other experience:
Soft skills and attitude:
**Nice to have**:
It would be nice if you also:


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