CORTEC

Backend Engineer

• Design and Development
• Define, Build and maintain REST and gRPC APIs for internal and external use.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Kotlin and the Kotlin ecosystem for JVM development (Exposed, Ktor, Serialization, …)
• Design and Implement Relational Data Stores, in particular using Postgres from a JVM application (currently using Kotlin Exposed). Incorporate in the design non-functional characteristics like reliability, performance, and data integrity.
• Document your designs, when appropriate using markdown and UML to share and review with other team members.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code with a focus on maintainability and testability.
• Create well documented, clear pull requests (GitHub) to be reviewed and respond to reviews in a timely way.
• Review Pull Requests and designs by other members of the team in a proactive and timely manner.
• Packaging and Deployment
• Develop and deploy:
• µ-services using containers (Docker)
• Helm and Kubernetes deployment descriptors
• Jar Libraries
• Gradle Build Configurations and Scripts
• Work together with DevOps and cloud engineering teams to define, implement and maintain infrastructure services on AWS with CloudFormation and CDK.
• Maintenance
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production issues.
• Monitor the alert channels from the system (together with the rest of the team) to detect potential issues early and apply remedies before there is customer impact if possible.
• Software Engineering
• Participate and contribute to daily standups (daily) and backlog grooming, sprint reviews (weekly)
• Manage your personal backlog of tickets in Github, maintain a clean structure of branches, commits and pull-requests for your work.
• Contribute ideas and solutions to help improve our architecture, processes, and team culture.

Back-End Engineer