Senior Backend Engineer - Kotlin, Kafka, Microservices

Bitvavo; Amsterdam; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bitvavo is expanding its backend team in Amsterdam to design and implement high‑quality services for the trading platform. You will work with engineering leadership to tackle scalability, performance, and reliability for a broad set of assets and customers.

The role emphasizes event‑driven microservices, JVM/Kotlin expertise, and active involvement in architecture decisions, while contributing to incident handling in production.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with trading products in retail space.
• Expertise in event-driven microservices architecture, particularly with Kafka.
• Strong proficiency in JVM languages, preferably Kotlin.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with your Engineering Manager, Staff Engineer and colleagues across the organisation to craft high quality software used by our customers.
• Dive into technical challenges, building solutions to guarantee peak performance across our systems.
• Actively participate in pivotal decisions on technology stacks and architecture.
• Participate in operational rotations to resolve incidents in our production environment.

Skills

Kotlin

JVM languages

Event-driven microservices

Design patterns

Backend development

Trading products experience

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Bitvavo is expanding its backend team in Amsterdam to design and implement high‑quality services for the trading platform. You will work with engineering leadership to tackle scalability, performance, and reliability for a broad set of assets and customers.

The role emphasizes event‑driven microservices, JVM/Kotlin expertise, and active involvement in architecture decisions, while contributing to incident handling in production.