Senior Software Engineer AI-First | Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kafka, GCP, Microservices, CQRS/Event Sourcing, Docker, K8s, Firebase, ArgoCD, Terraform, Claude, Agentic AI | Fintech Start-Up | €100k

We are Looking for a Senior Software engineer with strong JVM & Cloud-native, Event Sourcing & K8s, Terraform experience to join my client, a fast-growing trading company building a SaaS platform for high-frequency, high-velocity traders.

Our client's platform empowers more than 10,000 active traders in over 100 countries to monetize their trades efficiently and securely. The backend consists out of 15 microservices built with Kotlin, Kafka as the messaging queue, and everything is hosted in GCP.

This start-up needs Software Engineer with deep event-driven architecture (Kafka) knowledge. That Means that you will both build services, set-up and maintain Kubernetes Clusters, build and design CI/CD pipelines (from Scratch), and build backend-services. This is the kind of role where you can truly take ownership. You'll help mature the real-time, high performance backend services, lead new initiatives, and have a direct impact on the platform's technical direction.

Furthermore:

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in backend development
• Strong expertise in JVM, CI/CD
• 3+ years working Kafka
• 1 years working experience with Event driven/sourcing architecture (e.g. CQRS)
• Experience or strong affinity with distributed systems, data-intensive applications, or fintech environments.
• Strong experience with Agentic AI, Coding and AI tooling like Cursor/Claude
• Experience with Cloud native development (GCP/AWS)
• You are located in The Netherlands

Benefits:

• Salary up to €100k annually
• Remote first role with flexible working hours
• International team with growth opportunities

Interested?

Please contact Dion Zwinkels at Dion@doghouse-recruitment.nl