[Remote] Backend Engineer – Event-Driven Architecture (Kotlin/Kafka)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dahl Consulting is partnering with a leading Fortune 500 retail corporation to hire a Backend Engineer for their growing technology team. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services that support event-driven and distributed applications, requiring strong skills in backend development and modern JVM-based technologies.

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing backend applications in a JVM-based environment using Kotlin
• Building event-driven and distributed systems, including producers, consumers, topics, queues, and message contracts
• Implementing scalable services using Apache Kafka or comparable messaging/streaming platforms
• Developing REST APIs and asynchronous service interfaces to support distributed applications
• Applying robust backend testing practices, including unit, integration, and contract testing, as well as validating event-driven workflows
• Collaborating with engineering teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance across production systems

Skills

• Strong experience designing and developing backend applications using Kotlin in a JVM-based environment
• Hands-on experience building event-driven and distributed systems, including a solid understanding of event producers and consumers, topics and queues, event schemas and message contracts, retry and error-handling strategies, idempotent processing, event ordering, and eventual consistency
• Experience designing and implementing scalable services using Apache Kafka or a comparable messaging/streaming platform
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs and asynchronous service interfaces for distributed applications
• Strong understanding of backend testing practices, including unit testing, integration testing, contract testing, and validation of event-driven workflows and messaging interactions
• Experience optimizing high-volume, distributed backend services for performance, scalability, and reliability
• Experience troubleshooting and monitoring event-driven systems in production environments

Benefits

• Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary: https://www.dahlconsulting.com/benefits-w2fta/.

Company Overview

Dahl Consulting is a staffing and recruiting company that offers talent management solutions. It was founded in 1993, and is headquartered in Rockville, Minnesota, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://dahlconsulting.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Dahl Consulting has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2023, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.