Backend Software Engineer – Kotlin

Job title:

Backend Software Engineer – Kotlin

Company

Capgemini

Job description

About the job you’re consideringName of the position: Senior Software Engineer( (Kotlin)
Reports to: Team Lead/Delivery Manager
Department/Project: EngineeringPURPOSE OF THE JOB
As a Senior Engineer, you will build distributed data processing solution and highly loaded database solutions for various businesses cases including reporting, product analytics, marketing optimization and financial reporting. Contribute as part of self-organized team of experienced data engineers working in a challenging, innovative environment for our client, creating the foundation for decision-making at a company dealing with billions of events per day.
Investigate, create, and implement the solutions for existing technical challenges. Provide guidance, instruction, direction, leadership to a development team with the purpose of achieving project goals.Must have:

• University degree in Computer Related Sciences or similar
• 5+ years of development experience as software engineer using Kotlin
• Experience in API design, development & Integration and build high-reliability applications.
• Must have experience working with webhooks/OpenAPI.
• Must have experience in developing back-end components using Kotlin, ensuring high scalability and performance.
• Expert in Database fundamentals, SQL and distributed computing.
• Proficiency with CI/CD, and specifically with DevOps build and release pipelines.
• Excellent communication skills and experience working with technical and non-technical teams

Your role

• Obtains tasks from the project lead or Team Lead (TL), prepares functional and design specifications.
• Ensures that assigned area/areas are delivered within set deadlines and required quality objectives.
• Provides estimations, agrees task duration with the manager and contributes to project plan of assigned area.
• Addresses area-level risks, provides and implements mitigation plan.
• Reports about area readiness/quality, and raises red flags in crisis situations which are beyond his/her AOR.
• Responsible for resolving crisis situations within his/her AOR.
• Initiates and conducts code reviews, creates code standards, conventions and guidelines.
• Suggests technical and functional improvements to add value to the product;
• Constantly improves his/her professional level.
• Collaborates with multiple teams, Product,UI & Engineering.
• Develop back-end components using Kotlin, ensuring high scalability and performance.
• Deep understanding of Kotlin syntax, features, and idiomatic use of the language. Familiarity with advanced features like coroutines for asynchronous programming, and extension functions.
• Debug Kotlin code, write unit tests to ensure quality, and diagnose bugs.

Your skills and experience

• University degree in Computer Related Sciences or similar
• 5+ years of development experience as software engineer using Kotlin
• Experience in API design, development & Integration and build high-reliability applications.
• Must have experience working with webhooks/OpenAPI.
• Must have experience in developing back-end components using Kotlin, ensuring high scalability and performance.
• Expert in Database fundamentals, SQL and distributed computing.
• Proficiency with CI/CD, and specifically with DevOps build and release pipelines.
• Excellent communication skills and experience working with technical and non-technical teams

Nice to have:

• Experience with Amazon AWS cloud services (EC2, S3, RDS, etc) is preferred.
• Experience with stream-processing systems: Kafka, Spark-Streaming, Apache Flink, etc.

Life at CapgeminiCapgemini supports all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer:

• Flexible work
• Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs
• Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
• Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring
• Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
• Employee Resource Groups
• Disaster Relief

About CapgeminiCapgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to
engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.Get the future you want |DisclaimerCapgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do not pose an undue hardship.Capgemini is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodation, please reach out to your recruiting contact.Please be aware that Capgemini may capture your image (video or screenshot) during the interview process and that image may be used for verification, including during the hiring and onboarding process.Click the following link for more information on your rights as an ApplicantApplicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by Capgemini.

Expected salary

Location

Toronto, ON

Job date

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 07:15:32 GMT

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