Backend Engineer (Kotlin/Spring Boot) at Qualysoft

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and microservice-based applications.

Define and implement appropriate integration patterns between internal and external systems.

Contribute to architectural decisions related to distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and application design.

Develop backend solutions primarily using Kotlin and Spring Boot.

Contribute when required to frontend applications built with TypeScript, Nuxt, and NuxtUI, while maintaining a primary focus on backend development.

Build and operate cloud-native workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Cloud Run.

Define and maintain infrastructure using Terraform.

Participate actively in code reviews and pair programming sessions.

Apply Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices and maintain high standards of automated testing.

Write maintainable, modular, and well-structured code following Clean Code principles.

Contribute to and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows.

Use AI-assisted software engineering tools and practices to improve development productivity, code quality, testing, and problem-solving.

Collaborate closely with other engineers, architects, and stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle.

Document technical solutions, architectural decisions, and development processes using Confluence.

Manage development activities and collaborate with the wider team using Jira, Git, and GitLab.

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience in backend software development.
• Strong knowledge of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Good understanding of common enterprise integration patterns.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kotlin.
• Strong experience with Spring Boot.
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs and service-to-service integrations.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud-native application development.
• Practical experience with Cloud Run or similar container/serverless platforms.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Solid understanding of modern software engineering practices including:
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Clean Code
• Code Reviews
• Pair Programming
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Strong experience with Git-based development workflows, preferably using GitLab.
• Experience working in collaborative development environments using Jira and Confluence.
• Experience incorporating AI tools into software engineering workflows.

Nice to Have

• Experience with TypeScript.
• Experience developing Single Page Applications.
• Experience with Nuxt and NuxtUI.
• Broader full-stack development experience while maintaining strong backend expertise.
• Experience designing systems deployed in containerized and serverless cloud environments.