Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Build Scalable Systems

Kavak; Rosario; Remote; ARS 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Kavak is seeking a Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable systems for a product-led engineering team. This role involves Java and/or Kotlin with Spring Boot, GraphQL, MongoDB, and Aurora MySQL on AWS, covering operational tooling to system architecture.

Comfort with compliance, cost-savings, and observability work is valued. Responsibilities include taking on lower-priority engineering tasks, designing and maintaining scalable software systems, and ensuring high performance

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional backend-focused software development experience.
• Proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin.
• Proficiency in a modern NoSQL database, MongoDB on Atlas.
• Proficiency in a modern relational database, Aurora MySQL on AWS.
• Experience building cloud-native distributed systems on AWS.
• Experience with the Spring Boot framework.
• API development with GraphQL (Netflix DGS).
• Experience building and operating large-scale, high-performance, and resilient systems on a major cloud platform.

Responsibilities

• Take on lower-priority engineering work the team lacks bandwidth for, including compliance and engineering maintenance, cost-savings, observability, experiment clean-up, and operational tool development.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, performant, and reliable software systems.

Skills

Backend development

Java

Kotlin

Spring Boot

GraphQL

MongoDB

AWS

Software architecture

Tools

GraphQL (Netflix DGS)

MongoDB Atlas

Aurora MySQL on AWS

AWS

Spring Boot

Job description

Kavak is seeking a Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable systems for a product-led engineering team. This role involves Java and/or Kotlin with Spring Boot, GraphQL, MongoDB, and Aurora MySQL on AWS, covering operational tooling to system architecture.

Comfort with compliance, cost-savings, and observability work is valued. Responsibilities include taking on lower-priority engineering tasks, designing and maintaining scalable software systems, and ensuring high performance