Senior Leader Kotlin Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Leader Kotlin Engineer

Description

Lead the design and development of a robust, extensible Kotlin framework and platform for backend services supporting transactional communication (email, SMS, push notifications). Provide technical leadership to deliver quarterly goals, collaborate across the product lifecycle, and make risk-aware architectural decisions. Ensure operational excellence through monitoring, metrics, tracing, and on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop a robust and extensible Kotlin framework and platform
• Lead engineers through ambiguity to deliver quarterly goals for open-ended problems
• Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics across the product development lifecycle
• Drive decision-making and risk assessment on strategic technical choices
• Identify and resolve systemic issues across projects, processes, and technology
• Create and monitor metrics; support “keep the lights on” operations; participate in on-call rotation
• Set high standards for code reviews and design; advocate for best practices via technical writing and talks
• Mentor engineering talent with actionable feedback and guidance

Requirements

• 5+ years of Kotlin proficiency with backend systems at scale
• Deep experience with distributed systems and high-availability architectures
• Technical leadership experience in system design with ability to deliver significant features using simple, extensible designs
• Strong infrastructure knowledge: AWS, MySQL or DynamoDB, Kubernetes
• Experience managing large-scale codebases to enable safe and efficient technical changes
• Operational monitoring experience using metrics and tracing to maintain system health
• Strong collaboration skills with global, cross-functional engineering teams
• English proficiency at C1 level (spoken and written)

Benefits

Not specified in the provided posting.