Description :
At Intellias, we bring together technologists, creators, and innovators across Europe, North & Latin America, and the Middle East.
With 20+ years of market experience, we solve complex technology challenges and build products that make a real impact.
Why Work at Intellias India?
At Intellias India, youll join a culture that combines high ownership with high support.
We trust engineers to lead, design, and deliver while ensuring they have the right environment to grow, collaborate, and succeed.
Heres what makes Intellias India a great place to build your career :
- People-first culture : approachable teams, open communication, and genuine collaboration.
- Strong engineering mindset : modern architectures, quality practices, and continuous improvement.
- Growth & learning : opportunities to work with global stakeholders and build technical depth.
- Meaningful work : complex systems that impact real customers at scale.
- Ownership & autonomy : youll be empowered to influence outcomes, not just implement tasks.
Project / Team Overview :
Our client is one of the leading meal kit companies, providing 111 million meals to 4.2 million households worldwide in 14 countries across 3 continents.
The company tackles a wide range of complex challenges from procurement platforms and conversion rate optimization to live pricing tools, payment services, and add-on upselling features.
This role sits within a team responsible for leading the enhancement of core backend services that make supply chains more efficient and productive ensuring these services remain scalable, resilient, and secure.
You will also collaborate with engineers across multiple squads to ensure a seamless payment experience for both existing and new customers.
What you will do :
- Own the architecture, design, development, deployment, and operations of microservices (DevOps mindset).
- Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Frontend Engineers, Designers, and BI teams.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership to mid-level team members.
- Advocate best practices in coding, Gradle usage, and optimization strategies.
- Identify and resolve inefficiencies in the existing codebase through incremental improvements (without full rewrites).
- Work with modern technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spark, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Istio, and more.
- Maintain a strong focus on performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
Key Requirements :
Were looking for someone with strong hands-on production experience and the mindset to build systems that scale.
Core Skills :
- 6+ years of recent, commercial expertise in Kotlin.
- Strong foundation in Java or Scala.
- Deep understanding of Gradle and ability to implement best practices.
- Strong experience working with microservices architecture using Kotlin and Java.
- Solid knowledge of relational and document databases : PostgreSQL / MySQL / MongoDB.
- Experience with event-driven architecture using Kafka.
- Proficiency in CI/CD, DevOps practices, and delivery pipelines.
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
Strong Plus :
- Experience with Kafka Streams Processor API.
- Stream processing experience and performance tuning.
What success looks like in this role :
- Hands-on expertise : practical, real production-level delivery (not only theoretical knowledge).
- Scalability & performance : ability to optimize microservices under high load, troubleshoot bottlenecks, and improve throughput.
- Failure management: experience handling incidents and applying resiliency patterns (circuit breakers, retries, timeouts) real war stories welcome.
- Deep expertise in one core area : Kafka / CI-CD / databases / performance engineering.
- Strong problem-solving mindset : improve existing solutions instead of choosing rewrites as the default approach.
- Upper-intermediate English proficiency to ensure clear communication in a global setup.
- Leadership : ability to mentor, drive best practices, and contribute to architectural decisions.