Back-end developer

Back-end Developer in ACT (part-time)

Hi there! You know you’re a great developer. But do you have any idea how powerful you are with your programming skills and that you can use them to literally make this world a better place?

In ACT, we have developed a scalable mobile marketplace for sustainable grocery shopping, which will empower consumers to start shopping sustainably almost overnight with the ACT app, changing the direction of their combined purchasing power towards producers who respect the environment and treat their workers well.

If your eyes widened and lit up a bit, read on!

What would be my role in ACT?

Understand our easy to maintain legacy backend system (currently a monolith architecture built with microservice based architecture in mind using Java Spring Boot, Kotlin)

Further develop a scalable backend architecture in compliance with best development practices including any kind of refactoring, code base strategy forward, etc.

Optimize deployment pipeline through CI, CD

Implement new great features

Help launch the next major releases of the ACT shopping list app that will make ACT scale globally

Next prepare launch to a larger market in Europe

Work closely with the frontend to ensure interoperability, high availability and quality of the complete solution

What skills do I need to accomplish this?

2 - 3 years of experience with Kotlin development

Experience with Java development

TDD, CI, CD

Scrum-based development

Plus with experience in :

DevOps, Linux commands / batch scripting

Development and production pipeline telemetry

Feature switching, trunk-based development

Neo4j and / or similar technologies, at best using Cypher

PostgreSQL

GCP, Kubernetes / Cloud Run

Web development, React