Fullstack Kotlin Developer (Remote - East Coast Hours)

Our Customer is a consumer financial services company headquartered in Connecticut. The company offers consumer financing products, including credit, promotional financing and loyalty programs, installment lending to industries, and FDIC-insured consumer savings products through the consumer bank, its wholly owned online bank subsidiary.

We are seeking a Full Stack Kotlin Developer on a contract basis to support our customer’s ongoing business needs. This role is 100% remote, East Coast hours.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Kotlin web applications using modern frameworks and technologies for both front-end and back-end development
• Work extensively with AWS services to deploy, scale, and manage web applications (e.g., Docker, Lambda, SNS/SQS, S3)
• Design and implement microservices-based solutions using event-based domain-driven design (DDD) principles
• Utilize experience in JavaScript and Kotlin across both frontend and backend components
• Apply software design principles and UML methodology to create well-structured, maintainable, and scalable code
• Provide technology architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for one or more technology domains
• Collaborate with delivery teams and cross-functional groups to architect, design, develop, test, and release features
• Lead and mentor small teams of developers, offering guidance and technical expertise to support project goals
• Provide constructive source code feedback during code reviews
• Perform additional duties and special projects as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of IT development or testing experience, OR high school diploma/GED with 5+ years of web application development experience with strong JavaScript frameworks
• 3+ years of JavaScript programming experience and 2+ years of Kotlin programming experience in a cloud environment
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design patterns, microservices architecture, related frameworks, and event-driven design
• Experience focused on information security from a systems development perspective (OWASP, OAUTH2, etc.)
• Experience with integration technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or MuleSoft
• Proficiency in web development technologies, including HTML, XML, JavaScript, ASP, SQL, Java or Python, and SOAP/REST web services
• Experience using continuous integration tools such as Git, Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines, and Docker

Preferred:

• Leadership experience with a history of leading small technical teams (2+ years)
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing microservices-based architectures
• Ability to gather and analyze unrefined business requirements from multiple sources and translate them into clear test plans
• Ability to work under pressure while managing multiple projects and deadlines
• Highly motivated self-starter with strong initiative
• Ability to quickly learn, adapt, and think creatively

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements) Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.