Senior Software Engineer / Java/Kotlin/Scala/Contract / Hybrid / Seattle, WA

$70 - $70

Our client, a leader in FinTech, is seeking a Contract Senior Software Engineer. This is a hybrid role, 1 day a week onsite in Seattle, WA

Required skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

• 4+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack

• Our core stack is Java/ Kotlin/ Spring / PostgreSQL/ React, and we run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture with over 100 services in production

• 2+ years Java, Kotlin or Scala programming experience

• A proven understanding of relational databases and ORMs

• Experience working on a SOA or microservice-based application.

• Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done

• Solid sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion

• Affinity for solving problems and shipping impactful features, not polishing perfect code or architecture

• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests

Preferred skills:

• Interest in personal finance

• Experience managing your own investments or experience taking out loans

• Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems

• Full-stack experience, either toward systems (kafka, docker, posix), databases (postgres), or front-end (javascript/typescript, react)

Daily Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and testing of our systems and services

• Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the product

• Help translate product requirements into user stories and technical solutions

• Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment

• Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team

• Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies

• Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers