Berlin | Anteilig remote | Vollzeit

Senior Kotlin Backend Engineer (m/f/d)

About the Role

  • Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Kotlin
  • Build and evolve scalable, event-driven systems that process, validate, and expose financial data
  • Own features end-to-end: from technical design and implementation to testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance
  • Collaborate closely with the Product Owner and Finance stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions
  • Ensure data accuracy, traceability, and auditability across financial and accounting flows
  • Improve system reliability, observability, and performance for business-critical processes
  • Contribute to clean code, architectural discussions, and continuous improvement of engineering practices

About You

  • 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer working with Kotlin
  • Hands-on experience building backend services using the Spring ecosystem (e.g. Spring Boot, Spring Data)
  • Experience with event-driven design (e.g. asynchronous processing, messaging, domain events)
  • Practical experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS, or similar)
  • Solid understanding of databases, both NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB) and/or relational systems
  • Comfortable working in complex, data-heavy domains (ideally Finance), where investigation, analysis, and precision are key
  • Communicate clearly in English, open-minded, curious, and motivated to continuously improve both yourself and the systems you work on