Java, Kotlin Developer (SSE)

Our client is a leading global appliance company that has shaped living for the better for more than 100 years. They reinvent taste, care and wellbeing experiences for millions of people, always striving to be at the forefront of sustainability in society through their solutions and operations. Under their group of leading appliance brands, they sell approximately 60 million household products in more than 120 markets every year. They have employed 51000 people around the world.

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. 
• Integrate with search clusters such as OpenSearch. 
• Work on our payment & product platform and ensure fault tolerance. 
• Manage deployments with tools like GitHub, Gradle & CircleCI. 
• Monitor built services directly in the cluster and through services such as Sentry and Datadog. 
• Mentor junior engineers, guiding them on best practices. 

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional backend engineering experience. 
• 3+ years of developing in Kotlin, with extensive understanding of modern and asynchronous backend frameworks. 
• Worked with Kafka or a similar event streaming platform  
• Fluent in Git, 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.