Kontakt.io is hiring a
Software Engineer Lead, Remote - Poland

Summary

The job is for a Tech Lead in Kontakt.io, an IoT company that simplifies the delivery of location and sensor data insights. The role involves creating new products from scratch, providing technical leadership, and delivering features, integrations, tools, documentation, and support for customers using Kotlin, Java 17, Kafka, Spring framework, Python, Angular, MongoDB, Cassandra, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, git, AWS Cloud.

Requirements

• Min. 2 years of hands-on experience in leading the team e.g. Tech Lead role in a product company
• Experience in creating a product from 0-1
• Min. 5 years of hands-on experience in designing and developing highly scalable applications using modern technology stacks such as Java/Kotlin, Kafka with microservices architecture
• Strong hands-on experience with Kafka (with Kafka Streams)
• Very good knowledge of Spring framework
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Understanding the basics of Terraform, Prometheus and Grafana
• The ability to follow good development practices like test automation, CI/CD, source version control, etc
• Enjoy technical challenges and are eager to explore new technologies and solutions
• High level of commitment to driving things to completion (delivering real value)
• Excellent command of English (both speaking and writing)
• Willingness to participate in the rotation on-call duty (24/7)
• Excellent interpersonal skills, proactive approach and can-do attitude

Responsibilities

• Take part in creating a new product from scratch
• Collaborate with a Product Manager and Tech Leaders to design scalable and efficient software products
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the team
• Set technical direction, create and drive best practices and standards in the team (including peer reviews and building for testability)
• Deliver features, integrations, tools, documentation, and support for our customers
• Define scope, timelines, assist in project estimation
• Ensure adherence to design principles and maintainable code, performance optimization
• Participate in hands-on development, including coding, debugging, code reviews etc
• Propose any upgrades and updates necessary for keeping up with modern security and development best practices
• Support and maintain CI/CD Workflows
• Participate in weekly 24/7 on-call duty rotation as a member of the team

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Python or Bash will be an asset
• Experience in the healthcare sector
• Experience in Angular/frontend side

Benefits

• 160 zł - 190 zł an hour
• Easy to Use
• Easy to Buy
• Easy to Deploy
• Industry’s #1 Time To Value
• Delivered As A Service
• Outcome Driven
• Priced for Scaling
• A Platform for Scaling
• Managed for Scaling