L3/ L4 Back End Developer

Ambition; Hong Kong; Vor Ort; HKD 600.000 - 900.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

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.

Qualifikationen

• 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.

Aufgaben

• 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.

Kenntnisse

Kotlin

Java

Distributed systems

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

APIs

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Kafka

Containerization

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Jobbeschreibung

Role Overview
As a Backend Engineer, you will design, scale, and maintain high-availability cloud-native banking services in Hong Kong. Working within small, cross-functional teams, you will focus on continuous delivery, robust architecture, and production excellence.
Core Responsibilities

• Service Engineering: Design, build, and maintain scalable backend microservices and RESTful APIs using Kotlin or Java.
• Architecture & Data: Develop event-driven systems using event streams (e.g., Kafka) and relational databases.
• Cloud & Operations: Deploy services via container orchestration on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) following a "you build it, you run it" DevOps philosophy.
• Quality & Automation: Write clean, testable code with strong unit/integration test coverage and manage automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Production Reliability: Monitor live systems, respond to operational incidents, and ensure system security and uptime.

Key Qualifications & Experience

• Technical Proficiency: Expertise in Kotlin or Java, distributed systems design, and microservices architecture.
• Data & API Design: Proven experience with event-driven architecture, event streaming, relational databases, and backward-compatible API development.
• Infrastructure & CI/CD: Hands-on experience with AWS (or similar cloud providers), containerization, orchestration, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Modern Tooling: Familiarity with AI-assisted software development workflows.
• Soft Skills & Ownership: Strong cross-functional collaboration, active communication, and a results-oriented mindset with end-to-end ownership of production systems.