Kotlin Developer

EPAM provides enterprise software products, open-source solutions, and accelerators.

• Lead the architecture and development of backend services using Kotlin;
• Design and maintain distributed systems, focusing on caching strategies, queues, and event-driven processing;
• Drive the implementation of service-contract frameworks using gRPC, Protobuf, and REST;
• Oversee data modeling and integration across DynamoDB and PostgreSQL;
• Establish best practices for CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code;
• Mentor engineers and provide technical direction;
• Collaborate on integrating LLM/AI engineering solutions, including RAG pipelines and agentic patterns;
• Evaluate and adopt orchestration frameworks and managed RAG/vector services for AI-driven features;
• Ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability across cloud-based deployments.

• 6+ Years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a technical leadership role;
• Proficiency in Kotlin;
• Strong experience with AWS, particularly EKS, Docker, and Kubernetes;
• Experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code;
• Strong experience with gRPC, Protobuf, and HTTP/REST as service-contract frameworks;
• Hands-on experience with DynamoDB and PostgreSQL, including data modeling for product features;
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, including caching strategies, queues, eventual consistency, and asynchronous/event-driven processing;
• Solid grounding in LLM/AI engineering fundamentals, including prompt design, RAG pipelines, agentic patterns, tool use, and LLM evaluation;
• Hands-on experience with Spring AI or similar LLM orchestration frameworks;
• Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock AgentCore and Knowledge Bases or similar managed RAG/vector services;
• English proficiency at B2+ level or above.

• Remote collaboration is available from Ukraine.