Senior Backend Engineer (Kotlin)

A bit about us:

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

This is a new role. The team has doubled in size over the past year. The Core API team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. The company is based in London, the UK. Our team works from several countries. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Core hours are 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM UK time.

In this role you will:

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB

Requirements:

• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills

Pluses:

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

Perks and benefits:

Compensation: $1,750 - $2,350 monthly

• Paid in USD
• Flexible hours

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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