Senior Backend Kotlin Engineer - Fintech Payments & APIs

Kody; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity available

Global tech-driven culture

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Kody is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer in Hong Kong to design and scale systems powering payments, settlements, and financial APIs. You will work on gateways, settlement engines, and mobile POS integrations in a fast-growing fintech.

Join a startup-like yet scaling company with a modern tech stack: Kotlin, Kafka, Kubernetes, Redis, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native frameworks. English fluency is essential, and fintech experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software development experience (Kotlin or Java).
• Strong microservices, cloud deployment (AWS/GCP), and CI/CD (GitHub Actions).
• Proficiency with SQL/NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis).
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and event-driven systems (Kafka).
• APIs (REST, gRPC) and version control (GitHub).
• Agile development processes; English fluency; fintech/payments background a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs (REST/gRPC).
• Contribute to backend architecture for reliability and scalability.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and optimise performance in production systems.
• Collaborate with product, QA, and frontend teams to deliver robust solutions.
• Write clean, well-tested code and stay current with cloud technologies.
• Partner with global teams for scalable payment and settlement infrastructure.

Skills

5+ years backend experience

Kotlin

Java

Microservices

English fluent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

REST

gRPC

GitHub Actions

Job description

Kody is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer in Hong Kong to design and scale systems powering payments, settlements, and financial APIs. You will work on gateways, settlement engines, and mobile POS integrations in a fast-growing fintech.

Join a startup-like yet scaling company with a modern tech stack: Kotlin, Kafka, Kubernetes, Redis, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native frameworks. English fluency is essential, and fintech experience is a plus.