# 后端工程师 (Kotlin) - 深圳, 中国 (Senior)

**Company**: Kody
**Location**: 深圳, 中国
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

**Apply**: https://jobs.workable.com/view/nt225i4DCrp5uzosmH4FXU/%E5%90%8E%E7%AB%AF%E5%B7%A5%E7%A8%8B%E5%B8%88-(kotlin)---%E6%B7%B1%E5%9C%B3%2C-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD-(senior)-in-shenzhen-at-kody
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_3437e4dc-7d6

## Description

### Job Overview

We are seeking a senior backend engineer to join our team in Shenzhen, China. As a senior backend engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing our core backend systems, including payment gateways, settlement systems, mobile POS integrations, and financial service APIs.

### Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and optimize high-performance backend services and APIs (REST/gRPC) using Kotlin or Java

- Participate in backend architecture design to ensure system high availability and scalability

- Troubleshoot and optimize system performance issues to ensure system stability

- Collaborate closely with frontend, product, and testing teams to drive project delivery

- Write high-quality, maintainable code and participate in code reviews

- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in backend and cloud technologies

### Requirements

- 5+ years of experience in backend development (Kotlin or Java)

- Familiarity with microservices architecture, cloud deployment (AWS/GCP), and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)

- Proficiency in SQL/NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis)

- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and message queue systems (Kafka)

- Familiarity with API design (REST/gRPC) and version control (GitHub)

- Familiarity with agile development processes and good team collaboration skills

- Good English communication skills (Mandarin or Cantonese is a plus)

- Experience in financial technology, payment, or settlement systems is a plus

### Preferred Skills

- High concurrency and large-scale system development experience

- Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and ability to drive automation deployment and operations

- Experience in distributed systems or data architecture design

- Contributions to open-source communities or personal technical blogs

### Why Join Kody?

- Global technology company with offices in Singapore, London, and Hong Kong

- Flexible work arrangements in Shenzhen and Hong Kong

- Technology-driven culture with engineers having core influence on product decisions

- Challenging projects, including large-scale backend architecture design and optimization

- Competitive salary and benefits to reward your technical contributions

## Skills

### Required
- Kotlin
- Java
- microservices architecture
- cloud deployment
- CI/CD pipelines
- SQL/NoSQL databases
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- message queue systems
- API design
- version control
- agile development processes

### Nice to have
- high concurrency and large-scale system development experience
- DevOps
- CI/CD pipelines
- distributed systems or data architecture design
- open-source communities
- personal technical blogs