Junior Backend Developer - Kotlin, Remote

Who we are:

Regulatory oversight is constant, and the compliance department is one of the largest in the company. Our lending business funds equipment, vehicles and working capital for small and mid-sized companies across the US.

Overview:

This is a newly created position. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

Duties:

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups

Who you are:

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines

Also helpful:

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB

Compensation and benefits:

Pay: $1,300-$1,550 per month

• Paid in USD
• Flexible hours
• Paid time off

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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