Mid-Senior Back-End Engineer Java or Kotlin

Our client is a UK-based product FinTech company with an innovative own product – an active and successful finance intelligence platform, advising high-wealth people on wealth management, assets, and financial balance. The company just set up its new Bulgarian branch and is enhancing its own team. We are looking to hire a skilled remote working Mid-Senior Back-End Java Software Engineer to join the successful team and to contribute to further progress. Role Overview: In this role you will be responsible for the design and implementation of the event-driven microservices architecture, bringing the responsiveness, efficiency, scalability, robustness and security of the system up to the next level. Main Responsibilities • Take the ownership of core system services, continuously improve the quality of the services by refactoring the architectural design and applying state-of-the-art technologies • Establish and promote best practices in terms of the software lifecycle and QA, develop software solutions in key business areas. • Contribute to the technical roadmap and bridge existing gaps by bringing on board extensive knowledge and skills on Cloud-native event-driven microservice architecture • Collaborate with Product and Data teams to streamline the existing business processes and data flows • Collaboration with the Head of DevOps to consolidate the existing software infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines • Document, demonstrate and disseminate solutions by technical reports, diagrams, and blogs/vlogs Experience Required • 4+ years of experience as a professional software engineer using Java • A track record of successfully delivering software projects using Service-Oriented, Cloud-based and event-driven techniques • In-depth knowledge and skills in the Spring framework, including Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, and Spring Security • Extensive experience in using RDBMS and NoSQL databases • Extensive experience in using Apache Kafka • Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes • Familiarity with Jenkins based automated CI/CD pipelines • Familiarity with static code analysis, TDD/BDD, exception handling, and monitoring and alerting facilities, such as Sonarqube, Pact, Cucumber, Sentry, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana and PagerDuty • Familiarity with project management tools • Excellent presentation, oral and written communication skills • Strength in problem solving and issue-resolution with good attention to detail Nice to have OR willing to learn: • Kotlin Personal Characteristics • Strongly motivated and sets demanding standards for personal excellence • Autonomous self-starter and highly driven, able to lead large teams and initiatives with limited oversight • Effective collaborator with other team members • Independent thinker, inquisitive, eager to improve and learn • Confident being part of a small team that is building a business • Communicates rapidly, openly, inclusively and efficiently • Structured thought process and clear communication Benefits & Perks: • Highly competitive salary • Potential for equity participation • 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays • Work from home • Ability to influence project technologies; • Exceptional team of experienced and motivated individuals from a range of industries.