Kotlin Backend Engineer - Microservices, Kafka

This role sits on the Inventory Management / Supply Chain engineering team supporting large-scale retail systems. We're looking for a strong backend engineer who can design and build distributed systems-not just implement tickets. This team needs someone who can hit the ground running and bring real system design depth, especially around event-driven architectures.

This is a high-priority fill following a previous false start. Interviews move quickly, and decisions will be made fast.

What You'll Do??

• Design, build, and maintain distributed, event-driven backend systems
• Lead and contribute to system design discussions for scalable microservices
• Implement Kafka-based solutions (producers, consumers, event flows)
• Build and manage scalable APIs and microservices
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance, reliability, and resiliency issues
• Implement monitoring and alerting for large-scale systems
• Collaborate closely with engineers, resource managers, and product partners
• Document architecture decisions and technical designs as needed

• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Kotlin (must-have)
• Proven distributed systems design experience (critical)
• 3+ years of backend engineering experience in production environments
• Deep experience with event streaming platforms (Kafka strongly preferred)
• Experience building and operating scalable microservices
• Solid understanding of OOP principles and backend architecture
• Experience with Spring Boot or Micronaut
• Hands-on experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases
• Ability to quickly ramp up and contribute with minimal oversight

Nice to Have

• Experience with large-scale system monitoring and alerting
• Supply chain or inventory management domain experience
• Prior work in high-throughput, low-latency environments

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/.