You're experienced building and running applications at the enterprise level, and you're comfortable owning both the code and the infrastructure it runs on. You think like a systems engineer — reasoning about the whole platform, from JVM services and event streams to the clusters and cloud infrastructure underneath them. You thrive when given opportunities to deliver real-world platforms as an integral team member, including large-scale migrations, and you have the expertise to interface and communicate confidently with stakeholders
You'll excel in this role at Bitovi if you have
Strong working knowledge of Java and the JVM ecosystem (Spring Boot or similar); experience with additional backend languages (Go, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, C#, etc.) is a plus
Hands-on experience with a durable execution / workflow engine — Temporal preferred (Apache Airflow, Prefect, or similar also relevant) — including modeling workflows and activities, handling retries and timeouts, and reasoning about idempotency and failure modes
Experience designing and operating Kafka-based event streaming systems: topic and partition design, consumer groups, schema management, and reasoning about ordering, delivery guarantees, and consumer lag
Experience designing and building GraphQL APIs — schema design, resolvers, and performance concerns (N+1, caching, pagination); federation experience a plus
Deep, hands-on AWS experience: architecting, deploying, and operating production systems (EKS, networking, IAM, messaging, and data services)
Solid Kubernetes experience: deploying, operating, and debugging production workloads
A systems engineering mindset: understanding of complex scaling issues, concurrency, backpressure, caching strategies, and failure modes across distributed systems
Experience planning and executing migrations — application replatforming, workflow engine migrations, data/schema migrations, or moving workloads between environments with minimal downtime
A thorough understanding of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-style delivery
Experience with observability in practice — logging, metrics, and tracing (OpenTelemetry a plus)
Experience building modern microservice-based or serverless applications
Database schema design and development expertise
Other skills we value