Lead Software Engineer (Kotlin)

Algothic; Kraków; On-site; PLN 167,400 - 223,200; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology firm in Poland is seeking a Lead Software Engineer proficient in Kotlin or Java, with experience in cloud-native development for AWS. This role involves designing software based on user needs, coding with CI/CD practices, and leading a team. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of web app development, strong English skills, and experience with databases. Prior work in FinTech and use of Micronaut would be advantageous. Join the innovative team at this leading firm!

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience developing web apps on Kotlin or Java.
• Upper-intermediate level of English; communication with native speakers.
• Used relational and non-relational databases; wrote requests to databases.
• Worked with AWS and AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Used Terraform for cloud resource management.
• 1+ years of team leading experience.

Responsibilities

• Design cloud-native software for AWS using AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Design functional behavior of software based on user needs.
• Code using CI/CD and TDD practices.
• Organize and coordinate the team.
• Communicate with the client and the team daily.
• Participate in team meetings and analyze the system’s security.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

AWS

Terraform

team leading

relational databases

non-relational databases

cloud-native software design

CI/CD

TDD

English communication

Tools

Micronaut

Job description

We are building a financial platform that will research and run systematic trading strategies.

We collaborate with the quant team on strategies research, risk modeling, and portfolio optimizations. Our software engineering team embeds the corresponding logic into the platform.

Similar systems already exist on the market, but quants need to use several of them to research and run trading strategies. Our client’s idea is to build a system that can do it all.

Client: Several quants with 15+ years of Wall Street experience.

Team: 25 people divided into three sub-teams.

Project’s Stack

• Frontend: Typescript, Material UI, React, Jest, ESLint, Recharts.
• Backend (Microservices): Kotlin, Groovy, Python, Micronaut, Flask, Gatling, Locust, Spock, FastAPI, Pytest, Pandas, NumPy, SQLAlchemy, Yoyo.

What a Lead Software Engineer will do:

• Design cloud-native software for AWS using AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Design functional behavior of software based on user needs.
• Code using CI/CD and TDD practices.
• Organize and coordinate the team.
• Communicate with the client and the team daily.
• Complete related tasks: participate in team meetings, estimate features, analyze the system’s security.

We expect that a Lead Software Engineer:

• Has 3+ years of experience developing web apps on Kotlin or Java.
• Has at least upper-intermediate level of English; can communicate with native English speakers.
• Used relational and non-relational databases; wrote requests to databases.
• Worked with AWS and AWS Well-Architected Framework; can design cloud-native software for AWS using AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Used Terraform for cloud resource management.
• Has 1+ years of team leading experience.

Will be a plus:

• You have expertise in FinTech.
• You have worked with Micronaut.

Lead Software Engineer (Kotlin)

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