Senior Software Engineer

Intent Talent Solutions is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to create functional, modularized, scalable, and performant backend services. This role involves hands-on engineering and mentorship responsibilities over a team of junior engineers, focusing on backend API development using Kotlin and Kafka.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business and system requirements and produce service design specifications
• Design backend service specifications utilizing design patterns and architectural standards
• Develop backend API services using Kotlin, Kafka, and Spring Boot frameworks
• Write code modules aligned with client engineering standards addressing code quality, scalability, maintainability, vulnerability, and performance
• Perform unit testing to ensure unit test and code coverage metrics adhere to client standards
• Create and update conceptual, logical, and physical data models aligned with business and system design requirements
• Write DDL database scripts and optimized DML SQL queries (simple to medium complexity)
• Implement Software Engineering Best Practices based on client enterprise standards
• Instrument code aligned with DataDog observability platform
• Collaborate with client engineers and architects to design and develop scalable API services
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and leadership to a team of 3 junior software engineers
• Participate in daily scrum activities: standups, grooming, planning, and retrospectives
• Conduct peer code reviews and design/review sessions

Requirements:

• 8–15 years of backend development experience (APIs, microservices)
• Hands-on experience developing medium to complex service APIs in Kotlin
• Sound working knowledge of Kafka — ability to integrate with API services
• Integrate API services with databases to read/write transaction details
• Creation of logical, conceptual, and physical data models using Lucid, Visio, or similar tools
• Writing simple to medium complexity DML queries; ability to understand existing queries
• Experience managing and mentoring a team of junior engineers
• Experience working within an Agile scrum team setup
• Primary programming language — medium to complex API service development
• Backend framework for API development
• Event streaming platform integration with API services
• Database scripting and query development
• Lucid, Visio, or equivalent tools for conceptual/logical/physical models
• Code instrumentation for observability
• Standups, grooming, planning, retros
• Scalability, maintainability, vulnerability, and performance standards
• Ability to work in a team environment and communicate development updates regularly
• Knowledge of prompt engineering is a plus
• Familiarity or knowledge of Superblocks low-code platform