Senior Software Engineer (Java/Kotlin) - Backend
Zedge
Tech stack:
- Kotlin, Reactive programming, Spring, Kubernetes, Kafka, Maven, Gradle, Docker, MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Some Java 11/apache thrift legacy that we are moving away from.
- Productivity: Gitlab, Google Cloud, Grafana, Swagger, JIRA, Confluence, Slack
Qualifications:
- Fluent in any JVM-based language (Kotlin experience is not required)
- Ability to write clean and testable code
- Knowledge of how to handle eventual consistency in an event-driven environment
- Proficiency in best practices and design patterns
- Experience in working with microservices architecture
Responsibilities:
- Working in the 'Customer Experience Platform' team that is responsible for serving content to mobile apps, authentication, sending emails, marketing automation and whatever other APIs are needed for mobile apps
- Help product managers deliver MVP functionality in the most reasonable ways, given that we are serving over 33 million unique users every month
- Keep an eye on how we serve things to mobile clients and ensure the bill doesn't go wild - serving huge video/audio/image to that many users in a suboptimal way can lead to a huge impact
- Be proactive in introducing best and modern industry practices every day
- Writing software in Continuous Delivery way - so, all changes have to be fully covered by unit and integration tests
We offer:
- Humble, hungry, and smart colleagues that are always striving for the most reasonable solutions
- Very little technical debt - we write most of the software from scratch, constantly learning and using new technologies
- Ability to learn from other colleagues and apply your ideas on a large scale, distributed systems. And an ability to deploy your changes to Production in less than 15 minutes
- Startup culture - if you see that something is wrong, go ahead and fix it! No need to seek for multiple approvals
- Latest hardware and software - laptop with your favorite OS (Mac, Linux, Windows), IntelliJ, keyboard/mouse of your choice, etc.
- We are remote-first and we will continue to be - there is no need to go to the office but you can - you can choose what's best for you
- Perks: private health insurance; home office budget (whatever you need – noise-canceling headphones, gaming chair, and the like); learning budget (you can dedicate 10% of your working time to learning); mobile phone budget; free books. For folks who prefer working in the office, we offer a parking spot.
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