Backend Developer, Kotlin

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Durham, North Carolina and two nearshore delivery centres.

The role:

Looking for a Backend Developer, Kotlin who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. We are headquartered in Durham and have been hiring remotely since 2020. We hire in Greece through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern.

Job duties:

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ

Required qualifications:

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Nice to have:

• Terraform or Pulumi
• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts

Perks and benefits:

• 24 days paid time off
• Annual team retreat
• Company laptop
• Annual salary review
• Public holidays observed per your country

Candidates must be eligible to work in Greece.

Start: Flexible.

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