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Senior Backend Engineer

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💎 Seniority level: Senior

📍 Location: Copenhagen, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Montreal, Lisbon, 35 other countries

🔍 Industry: Financial services

🏢 Company: Pleo👥 501-1000💰 $42,922,001 Debt Financing 8 months ago🫂 Last layoff about 2 years agoMobile PaymentsFinancial ServicesPaymentsInformation TechnologyFinTech

🗣️ Languages: English

🪄 Skills: AWSPostgreSQLCypressJUNITKotlinKubernetesDevOpsTerraformMicroservices

Requirements:
  • Expertise in server-side languages, with a focus on Kotlin since it powers 90%+ of microservices.
  • Experience with cloud environments, distributed systems, and microservices, specifically AWS, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes.
  • Knowledge of relational databases, especially PostgreSQL.
  • Familiarity with testing frameworks like Cypress, JUnit, and Testcontainers.
  • Proficiency in observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog.
  • Understanding of DevOps culture and tools including GitHub Actions, Gradle, and Terraform.
  • Fluency in English for communication.
Responsibilities:
  • Write excellent, well-tested, maintainable code in server-side languages, mainly Kotlin.
  • Provide insightful PR reviews and be a trusted technical partner to teammates.
  • Take ownership of large projects including new product launches and tricky migrations.
  • Guide the team through ambiguity and technical changes as priorities shift.
  • Set a high standard for team culture, promoting trust and transparency.
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