Senior Backend Kotlin Developer
Kody is an agentic commerce platform with embedded payments, helping businesses manage payment acceptance, cash flow, customer engagement, and operations.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Kody
Kody provides an all-in-one commerce and payments platform for businesses with physical locations, particularly hospitality and other brick-and-mortar businesses. Its services include payment acceptance, financial and banking services through partners, cash-flow access via KodyCard, management tools, reporting and analytics, customer tracking, loyalty features, and conversational AI capabilities. Kody supports businesses through web- and app-based technology and offers multiple pricing plans for merchants.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that power payment gateways, settlement systems, mobile POS integrations, and financial service APIs. You will contribute to backend architecture, ensure reliability and scalability, debug and optimise production performance, collaborate with product, QA and frontend, and write clean, well-tested code.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend software development (Kotlin or Java)
- Strong understanding of microservices and cloud deployment (AWS/GCP)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
- Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis)
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with event-driven systems (Kafka)
- Solid understanding of APIs (REST, gRPC) and version control (GitHub)
- Familiarity with agile development processes
- Fluent in English (Mandarin or Cantonese a plus)
- Fintech, payment, or settlement background is a plus
Responsibilities
- Design backend services and APIs (REST/gRPC)
- Build and maintain backend systems
- Ensure system reliability and scalability
- Debug, troubleshoot, and optimise production performance
- Collaborate with product, QA, and frontend teams to deliver maintainable solutions
- Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code
- Stay current with backend and cloud technologies
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and meaningful work impact
- Equity available
- Flexibility and a global, tech-driven culture
- Career growth opportunities within a fast-scaling fintech
- Access to learning and development and travel opportunities
