Senior Kotlin Backend Engineer | Cloud Native Microservices

AgileEngine; Jersey City (NJ); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Education budget

Fitness budget

Flexible schedule

Job summary

A software development company in Jersey City is seeking a Software Engineer (Kotlin) to enhance large-scale backend systems and develop a cloud-native platform. In this role, you will design microservices, manage infrastructure with Terraform, and ensure service reliability. Ideal candidates have over 5 years of backend development experience and strong skills in Kotlin and GCP. Competitive compensation and flexible working options are offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Kotlin (server-side).
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Solid understanding of Microservices architecture and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable microservices using Kotlin.
• Take ownership of infrastructure provisioning using Terraform.
• Migrate data from a legacy PHP monolith to Cloud SQL/Spanner.
• Collaborate with mobile engineers for API definitions.
• Ensure high performance and reliability of services.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code.

Skills

Kotlin (server-side)

Microservices architecture

Backend software development

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Terraform

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

GKE

Pub/Sub

BigQuery

Job description

A software development company in Jersey City is seeking a Software Engineer (Kotlin) to enhance large-scale backend systems and develop a cloud-native platform. In this role, you will design microservices, manage infrastructure with Terraform, and ensure service reliability. Ideal candidates have over 5 years of backend development experience and strong skills in Kotlin and GCP. Competitive compensation and flexible working options are offered.