Having started on Java and Spring, we have since moved to Kotlin for all new development and are doing things a bit differently with the majority of our microservices following a CQRS architecture with event sourcing. All of our systems are on Kubernetes and using Google Cloud technologies.

We encourage collaboration and our engineers are involved in the full development lifecycle – from the brainstorming of what’s possible, to see how the products are being used by our end users. This is a great opportunity for a backend engineer who is interested in building reliable and scalable smart platforms that solve real-world problems to do more than simply working off fully formed ideas in Jira.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Working closely with product managers, front-end engineers, and directly with the wider business to shape technology-powered solutions
• Close collaboration within the backend engineering team, in code reviews, pair programming, knowledge sharing sessions and other activities to maintain best practices and consistency across the platform
• Implementing, testing, and releasing new functionality across Elder’s backend systems with focus on the algorithms that match our customers with carers, and system integrations
• Collaborating with frontend engineers in building new APIs and data contracts to support new functionality

Requirements

• Solid professional experience working on backend platforms following modern architectures such as microservices or serverless
• Strong fundamentals of Java development practices. You’ve either worked with Java before and are now keen to move into Kotlin development or have experience with Kotlin itself
• Good communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working directly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Having worked with CQRS/event sourcing in the past is a bonus, but not a requirement - but you’re likely already in favour of functional-style programming patterns
• A good grasp of principles behind building reliable and scalable systems, including redundancy, time complexity, and memory management
• An active interest in staying up-to-date with new technology, new frameworks, new languages and other developments
• A passion for working collaboratively to solve meaningful real-world problems with technology, not just writing code!

Your interview at Elder is purposely designed to get the best out of you whilst providing you with insights into the organisation, your eventual team and the proposed role.

Although your specific technical knowledge is important to us, we're interested in your passion for our mission, ability to work cross-functionally and collaborate freely.