[Hiring] Senior Backend Developer @AB InBev | Growth Group

Role Description

Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend services using Kotlin and Spring Boot.

• Drive the evolution of our microservices architecture, ensuring performance, resilience, security, and maintainability.
• Design, build, and optimize RESTful APIs and integrations across distributed systems.
• Improve system observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Take an active role in technical discussions, architecture decisions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Champion engineering best practices, including idiomatic Kotlin, code quality, testing, and automation.
• Mentor other engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and cloud-native environments.
• Support and evolve containerized applications running on Docker and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Systems Analysis and Development, or related fields.
• Solid backend development experience with Kotlin, along with a strong foundation in Java and the JVM ecosystem.
• Proficiency in idiomatic Kotlin (null safety, data classes, sealed classes, extension functions) and a good understanding of Java–Kotlin interoperability.
• Hands-on experience building Kotlin applications with Spring Framework technologies such as Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring MVC, and Spring Data.
• Experience designing and maintaining RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Proven experience developing and scaling high-throughput, distributed applications in production.
• Experience with software testing, including unit, integration, regression, stress, and automated testing, using tools such as JUnit, MockK, Kotest, or Testcontainers.
• Experience with application monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic, Datadog, or similar platforms.
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, or similar technologies.
• Strong fundamentals in object-oriented and functional programming, data structures, algorithms, and problem solving.
• In-depth knowledge of design patterns, software architecture, and development best practices (e.g., SOLID, Clean Architecture, DDD).
• Experience working in Agile teams, mentoring other engineers, and leading technical discussions.
• Intermediate English communication skills, both written and spoken.

Requirements

• Experience with Kotlin coroutines and reactive programming (Spring WebFlux, Project Reactor).
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience migrating Java codebases to Kotlin.
• Familiarity with Gradle using the Kotlin DSL.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.

Benefits

• Performance based bonus*
• Attendance Bonus*
• Private pension plan
• Meal Allowance
• Casual office and dress code
• Days off*
• Health, dental, and life insurance
• Medicines discounts
• WellHub partnership
• Childcare subsidies
• Discounts on Ambev products*
• Clube Ben partnership
• Scholarship*
• School materials assurance
• Language and training platforms
• Transport allowance