Kody, a fast-growing Fintech specialising in bringing online payments and better financial services to brick and mortar businesses, is seeking an experienced backend Kotlin Developer to join their dynamic team.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to develop and maintain various software components of Kody's platform, from the mobile point of sale, payment terminal card readers, ecommerce payment gateway, and many other products in the financial services. It requires a deep expertise in Kotlin and Java and familiarity with cloud development using containerisation frameworks.
The ideal candidate will have strong problem-solving skills, be a team player, and be proactive in their approach to achieving company goals.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain software components of Kody's platform
- Debug and troubleshoot system issues and provide support as necessary
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to the team's development process
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify areas for improvement in software development processes
- Keep up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in the Kotlin/Java development space
- At least 5 years of experience in backend Kotlin/Java software development
- Familiarity with SQL databases such as Postgres (ideally) or MySQL
- Good understanding of APIs: REST or gRPC (this one ideally since we moved all of our services to gRPC)
- Strong familiarity with Git version control (we use GitHub)
- Experience with cloud computing and deployment with CI/CD (we use GitHub Actions)
- Experience working with unit testing frameworks
- Knowledge of agile development practices and methodologies
- We're a fast growing, exciting company within a rapidly developing industry. You'll be surrounded by super ambitious individuals who think really big.
- Remote-first. We have an office in Shoreditch if you prefer working from an office - completely optional.
- Annual £1,000 learning and development allowance on training related to your role
- £200 to spend on your home office set-up (excluding your laptop, monitor, etc which are already part of the job. This allowance is for making your workplace comfy)
- Every year you'll get 25 days of holiday leave plus an extra day of leave for life events like your birthday or getting married
- Enhanced parental leave once you reach a year of service
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What We Do
Kody is on a mission to make in-person payment acceptance easy. Today, paying in person presents common problems for businesses, such as high costs, long queues, and limited choice of payment methods. Kody fully integrates the payment ecosystem. This way, businesses can offer customers more control over their payment choices to make transactions quicker and simpler.
Founded by a small group of final-year high school students and launched in July 2022, 24-year-old founder Yoyo Chang (CEO) studied at the University of Cambridge & York whilst raising US$10M. Today, Kody's platform is growing to connect millions of end-users with venues all over the world.
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