Summary
A senior Kotlin backend development opportunity within a rapidly scaling digital marketplace. You will help build reliable and scalable services using modern technologies, collaborate in an agile environment, and contribute to a convenient online experience for customers seeking health-related products.
Highlights
Join a rapidly growing technology team working on a large online marketplace in the health sector. The role offers senior-level backend ownership, modern technology, agile collaboration, and the opportunity to improve convenient digital access to health-related products.
Description
We are Onfy - a German pharmacy marketplace founded in 2021.
We are on a mission to constantly find new and innovative ways to support your health online.
We empower our customers to take their health into their own hands by providing an easy, convenient and affordable experience.
Our website www.onfy.de launched in November 2021, and since then it has developed into an online platform that offers consumers the unique ability to order and to receive health products from several pharmacies at once with low prices and fast delivery.
We are an agile, rapidly growing team of forward thinkers, and we believe in people who want to change the world of health for the better using the latest technology available.
Onfy is one of the key businesses of Joom, an international tech-centric group of e-commerce companies that was founded in 2016 in Latvia.
Joom Group also includes the following businesses: Joom, a global cross-border marketplace; JoomPro, the first and only end-to-end cross-border B2B marketplace; and JoomPulse, an AI analytics tool for Mercado Livre sellers.
Joom Group has offices in Latvia, China, Germany, and Brazil, with its headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal.
We work as one international team, sharing knowledge and collaborating across countries, businesses and products.
We continue to evolve our product experience, making it more advanced, reliable, and engaging for users.
We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join the Onfy team - someone with deep backend expertise who can own complex technical areas, make strong architectural decisions, and actively contribute to product discussions.
The main focus of the role is backend development.
At the same time, we value T-shaped engineers.
We expect the person in this role to be interested in working across platform boundaries and growing beyond frontend when it brings value to the product.We actively use AI in our engineering workflows and welcome candidates who thoughtfully apply AI tools to improve development speed, quality, and decision-making.
Tech stack: Kotlin, Spring, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Redis, Spark, Scala
Weβre hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to build and maintain a fast, reliable backend, solve scaling challenges, and own platform architecture
Requirements
5+ years of backend engineering experience in production environments3+ years of recent experience with Kotlin or another JVM languageStrong software architecture skillsRelational DBMS expertise (PostgreSQL schema design & safe migrations)Proven track record in customer-facing product developmentExperience with AI tools and modern AI practicesStrong written and spoken English
Preferred
Experience as a tech lead or engineering team leadAWS / Kubernetes experienceObservability mindset (metrics, logging)Experience with analytics workloads (Spark / Scala)Full-stack experience, especially React
We offer
Compensation package: base salary and performance-based bonusesOffice-first: flexible hours with a possibility to work remotely 52 days per year, and 28 days of paid annual leaveCare & Wellbeing: health insurance for the employees, including dental care (Barmenia Mehr Zahn 100), daily meal allowanceAI-first approach: licenses and access to a wide range of AI toolsTeam & Growth: collaboration with colleagues across Portugal, Brazil, Latvia and China, with opportunities for promotions, professional trainings, and English coursesCommunity & Engagement: annual team building activities, knowledge-sharing workshops, and a strong sense of team workBefore applying for the above position please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.
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