Backend Developer, Kotlin

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day.

Position summary:

We're looking for a Backend Developer, Kotlin to join our team. This is a remote role. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Remote within the US. The team meets in Fremont once a quarter, travel covered. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Job duties:

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.

Preferred:

• Terraform or Pulumi.
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

What we offer:

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Paid holidays.
• Employee assistance program.
• Tuition reimbursement.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Fremont Technologies.