Backend Developer (Kotlin)

About Vivid Money

Vivid Money is an innovative FinTech startup offering a unique mobile banking app for business and personal customers. From easy payments and transfers to multi-currency accounts and spending reports, we make managing finances simple, flexible, and transparent. By leveraging advanced technologies, we’re transforming banking in the conservative European market, creating products that simplify operations and empower our users.

Position

The ideal candidate for this role will be a passionate and knowledgeable engineer who is comfortable developing new features and services and maintaining existing codebase. The candidate should have a strong software engineering and computer science background with a particular focus on developing robust and reliable solutions.

We are using a modern stack of technologies and platforms like PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Gitlab CI, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Responsibilities:

• Provide ongoing support for existing products.
• Actively contribute to specifying new banking products within the platform.
• Propose solutions to enhance platform observability, fault tolerance, and operational control.
• Gather technical requirements and describe technical tasks derived from them.
• Engage in effective communication with partners.
• Track assigned projects' progress.
• Collaborate with adjacent teams to develop comprehensive cross-team solutions for products.

Your qualification

• Expertise in developing applications using Kotlin, and bonus if you have Java skills.
• Masterful understanding of Coroutines functionality to drive efficient asynchronous programming.
• Prior experience in Spring framework development.
• Highly desirable familiarity with Kubernetes and Helm for efficient deployment and management of applications.
• Profound knowledge in building distributed applications using microservice architecture for robust and scalable solutions.
• Proficiency in gRPC and Kafka communication mechanisms to facilitate seamless data exchange.
• Fundamental understanding of the AWS ecosystem, leveraging its services for optimal application performance.
• Excellent communication skills and proactive engagement are a must.

What we offer

• We have a hybrid model in one of our offices, Limassol or Almaty, or fully remote outside office locations.

• We support relocation (visa, package) when needed.
• This is a senior-level position with a competitive salary and benefits package (depending on location).

Additional details

If you're looking for an exciting new opportunity to take your engineering skills to the next level and make an impact in the world of finance, then Vivid is the perfect place for you. Come and join our talented team of professionals and help us revolutionize how people think about their money!