Backend Engineer (Kotlin/Java) – Cloud & Microservices

Ambition; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambition in Hong Kong is hiring a Backend Engineer to design, scale, and maintain high-availability cloud-native banking services. You will work in small cross-functional teams delivering robust architectures and production-grade excellence, with a strong focus on reliability.

Responsibilities include building scalable microservices and RESTful APIs in Kotlin or Java, implementing event-driven systems with Kafka, and deploying on AWS using container orchestration.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable backend microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Proficient in event-driven architecture and event streaming with relational databases.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or similar cloud providers, containers, orchestration, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Develop event-driven systems using event streams (e.g., Kafka) and relational databases.
• Deploy services via container orchestration on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) with DevOps practices; ensure reliability and uptime.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

Distributed systems

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

APIs

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Kafka

Containerization

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Job description

Ambition in Hong Kong is hiring a Backend Engineer to design, scale, and maintain high-availability cloud-native banking services. You will work in small cross-functional teams delivering robust architectures and production-grade excellence, with a strong focus on reliability.

Responsibilities include building scalable microservices and RESTful APIs in Kotlin or Java, implementing event-driven systems with Kafka, and deploying on AWS using container orchestration.