Senior JVM Backend Engineer - Kotlin & Fintech

Salmon Group Ltd; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote and hybrid work options

Medical insurance and health &well

Relocation support for eligible

Rapid professional growth

Performance-based rewards

New office in Manila, Philippines

Job summary

Salmon is seeking an experienced JVM engineer to design and evolve robust banking platforms used across public and internal services. You will work with Kotlin, modern JVM technologies, and contribute to scalable, event-driven architectures.

This role offers remote and hybrid options and exposure to cutting-edge fintech initiatives. The successful candidate will have 5+ years in the JVM ecosystem, with Docker/Kubernetes experience in AWS, and a strong ownership mindset to deliver high-quality

Qualifications

• 5+ years of JVM experience with Kotlin or Java.
• Strong understanding of concurrency and asynchronous programming.
• Experience with clean architectures (DDD, event-driven).
• Knowledge of distributed systems and trade-offs.
• Hands-on with Docker and Kubernetes, preferably in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve banking APIs for mobile apps and services.
• Build scalable backend using Kotlin and modern JVM tech (Ktor, jOOQ, coroutines, Arrow).
• Develop and improve public APIs, internal SDKs, and shared platform components.
• Implement high-performance integrations with partners and third-party systems.
• Contribute to architecture, scalability, and reliability of core banking platforms.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

Concurrency

Distributed systems

DDD

Event-driven

Ownership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

jOOQ

Ktor

Coroutines

Arrow

Job description

Salmon is seeking an experienced JVM engineer to design and evolve robust banking platforms used across public and internal services. You will work with Kotlin, modern JVM technologies, and contribute to scalable, event-driven architectures.

This role offers remote and hybrid options and exposure to cutting-edge fintech initiatives. The successful candidate will have 5+ years in the JVM ecosystem, with Docker/Kubernetes experience in AWS, and a strong ownership mindset to deliver high-quality