Back-end Engineer (Kotlin)

at  Napier AI

DESCRIPTION

The Back-end Engineer (Kotlin) is a key member of our core Engineering teams, building our powerful, flexible financial crime detection engine that is used by top Financial Institutions globally to quickly and easily apply predefined scenarios or Machine Learning algorithms to customer, and transaction data.
In this role, you (Back-end Engineer) will be responsible for building high-quality features in alignment with Napier’s overall technical vision and architecture, following appropriate engineering practices (such as CI/CD, high automation and test coverage, and trunk-based development), continually improving technical debt, and evolving the system to meet changing needs and market opportunities.
You’ll be a passionate hands-on technologist who is ready to do what’s needed to keep technical quality high. And you’ll be equally passionate about developing others within the team, mentoring, and pairing with more junior engineers and creating a supportive and collaborative team dynamic. A desire to teach, to learn and to help grow a culture of delivery excellence in Napier is welcome.
You will also work with Napier tech leads, Solution Architects, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help design technical solutions in support of Napier’s wider business and technical goals. Your creativity and innovative ideas will be encouraged and supported - we are ready to hear your ideas!

DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?

• At least 4 years of commercial experience in a senior or lead engineering role working on microservice-based solutions using server-side Kotlin – but we are open-minded in what industry or sector (does not have to be compliance & AML)
• Comfortable mentoring more junior engineers and growing their confidence and expertise to create a high-performance environment
• Experience of delivering software to both cloud (multiple vendors) and on-premises customers in a product/SaaS environment, and a deep understanding of the key considerations in terms of deployment, upgrades, support, and migration
• Experience in Agile delivery environments - a track record of constantly looking for ways to do things better and an excellent understanding of the mechanisms necessary to successfully implement change
• Knowledge of DevOps and infrastructure engineering principles and practices

These skills are essential to be successful in this role

• Hands-on programming experience using server-side Kotlin v2
• Performance engineering principles and tools
• Database and SQL development experience, especially PostGreSQL
• Open Telemetry and related observability tools and techniques, especially tools like Sentry, Grafana and Prometheus
• Azure and AWS or GCP and data processing in cloud
• Great organisational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, and ability to adapt quickly and constructively to changing circumstances
• Collaborative team player with strong (written and verbal) communication skills
• Comfortable working with remote engineering teams and distributed delivery models

We’d be thrilled if you also have experience with, and are keen to grow your skills in, some of these other areas:

• Go - but training will be provided if you don’t have this
• Front-End languages such as Angular, React, JavaScript
• Analytics engines, especially ElasticSearch
• KeyCloak
• ETL tools
• CI/CD and DevOps tooling
• Open Telemetry and related observability tools and techniques, especially Grafana and Prometheus

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING? BACKEND ENGINEER (KOTLIN)

• Assuming direct development responsibility for developing, debugging and unit testing of product features in accordance with internal procedures and standards
• Actively participating in technical design workshops and producing technical specification documents as requested
• When required, diagnosing, and solving functional and performance/scalability issues
• Helping to improve technical practices towards a continuously releasable end-state, especially in terms of GitHub, CI/CD, and development processes
• Creating a collaborative and inclusive working environment that uplifts developer knowledge and culture
• Participating in technology selection decisions

These skills are essential to be successful in this role

• Hands-on programming experience using server-side Kotlin v2
• Performance engineering principles and tools
• Database and SQL development experience, especially PostGreSQL
• Open Telemetry and related observability tools and techniques, especially tools like Sentry, Grafana and Prometheus
• Azure and AWS or GCP and data processing in cloud
• Great organisational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, and ability to adapt quickly and constructively to changing circumstances
• Collaborative team player with strong (written and verbal) communication skills
• Comfortable working with remote engineering teams and distributed delivery model