Backend Developer, Kotlin

Who we are:

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

About the role:

Mesaflow Labs is hiring a Backend Developer, Kotlin to work remotely from Türkiye. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. Remote within Türkiye. The team meets in Kocaeli once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

What you'll do:

• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't

About you:

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines

Preferred:

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Prior work breaking up a monolith

Compensation and benefits:

• Private health insurance
• Stock options
• Annual bonus
• Meal card
• Training budget

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

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