Kotlin Backend SW Engineer Your New CompanyOne of Europes leading consumer retailers is looking to hire a Backend Software Engineer to join one of the squads.
Your New RoleDevelop and maintain services for customer order processing, covering the end-to-end online order journey.
- Build and manage APIs and integrations between the Order Management System and key corporate applications such as SAP, Checkout, Payments, Invoicing and Pick Pack.
- Orchestrate order workflows to ensure consistent and real-time processing across different systems.
- Standardize order data and communication between multiple platforms and applications.
Your tasks - Design, implement, and evolve COS REST APIs and event schemas (OpenAPI, API Gateway), enabling contract-first integrations and decoupling consumers from Order Management platform.
- Develop and orchestrate event-driven order workflows with Kafka/Kafka Streams and Temporal (basket-to-order, payment/checkout, digital activation, fulfillment, transport management), ensuring reliability, idem-potency, and auditability.
- Build and maintain data persistence and propagation: model order data in Protobuf, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, drive real-time synchronization to corporate systems, and support analytics via Pub/Sub to BigQuery with strong data quality and PII safeguards.
- Operate the platform on GCP/Kubernetes using GitOps (Flux): monitor and troubleshoot production, optimize performance and scalability, manage incidents, and continually improve SLAs, security, and resilience.




What will you need to fit in itStrong experience building event-driven, distributed systems - Proficiency in Kotlin on the JVM solid Java skills familiarity with Python or TypeScript is a plus.
- Proven track record designing contract-first RESTful APIs with OpenAPI, including versioning, error models, and API gateway policies (e.g., Kong/Apigee).
- Practical experience with relational and noSQL databases (like MongoDB and PostgreSQL), schema design, transactions, performance tuning in high-throughput environments.
- Experience in cloud-native operations, e.g. on GCP with Kubernetes and Terraform GitOps (Flux), CI/CD, observability (logging, metrics, tracing), and production troubleshooting.
- Integration expertise using synchronous and asynchronous patterns (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, etc.) across enterprise systems - Strong focus on reliability, security, and compliance for customer order data (SLAs, auditability, PII/GDPR), with clear communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
What will you get in return - Permanent contract, directly with the final company - Competitive gross salary in line with your experience (up to 50k) - Adaptable working hours - Offices located in Barceloneta or El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona - 4 work from home days per week - 27 days of vacation per year - Training budget and language classes - Young and dynamic tech environment with strong collaboration culture - Long term professional development plan and exposure to cutting-edge technologies Kotlin, JVM, java

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