Senior Backend Developer

About the project

You will be part of an Agile team and build underwriting tools for a global underwriter community. The tools incorporate the two central parts of our client’s value chain: they transparently model the underwriting process and combine it with the actual pricing. We use a microservice architecture, with Java, Kotlin, Spring on the backend, and Angular, NodeJS, Express, Fastify on the frontend.

Your responsibilities

• Designing and implementing large, complex software applications based on REST microservices with Java, Kotlin, Spring, and Junit.
• Collaborating within Agile development team, working in cross-functional teams with BAs, POs, QAs, FEs, and UX Designers.
• Ensuring development best practices such as code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Monitoring product quality, ensure proper code validation and design patterns.
• Encouraging technical discussions within the team for continuous product improvement.
• Actively communicating with stakeholders from different hierarchies' levels and diverse backgrounds, understanding projects’ environment, obstacles and identifying possible solutions, demonstrating analytical and problem-solving skills.

Your skills and experience

• Bachelor's degree in IT-related field or equivalent work experience.
• Proficiency in English (minimum B2 level).
• Proven track record of relevant experience as backend developer using Java and/ or Kotlin.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis.
• Extensive experience building distributed systems and microservices architectures with client-side composition methods, knowing typical patterns and problems with integrating services.
• Experience in designing, maintaining, and running APIs.
• Excellent Java Core development skills, also developing Spring Applications (Spring Boot, Spring Data), JPA, ORM (Hibernate), RabbitMQ.
• Experience in working with relational databases, ability to optimize queries.
• Experience in monitoring the quality of the product; knowledge of testing approaches and code validation.
• Excellent knowledge of browser troubleshooting and debugging practices and techniques.
• Experience in continuous integration and delivery tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, Github Actions).
• Experience with Agile methodology for project management (SAFe is a plus).
• Experience in providing architectural solutions is a plus.
• Knowledge of Kafka is a plus.

About Solveva

Solveva is an owner-operated technology and consulting company specializing in insurance and reinsurance solutions. We operate across Switzerland, Bulgaria, Georgia, Portugal, and the UAE, bringing together teams with strong engineering capabilities and deep industry expertise.

We help clients modernize core processes such as pricing, underwriting, and risk management through high‑quality software engineering and domain knowledge. Our work includes both tailor‑made solutions and proprietary products developed in-house.

We value trust, openness, and personal responsibility. With a flat structure and collaborative way of working, we encourage initiative, continuous learning, and transparent communication. Our goal is to create an environment where people can grow, contribute meaningfully, and work together to build impactful solutions.

Reasons you’ll love working at Solveva 

• Over 90% of our staff would recommend working at Solveva to their friends and family.
• We are an owner-operated company – our management keeps their promises.
• Small teams collaborate in a friendly atmosphere.
• We have a flat structure with little bureaucracy.
• Our culture of trust gives you flexibility for remote, office, or hybrid work.
• You get a budget for further education, additional equipment, or your health club of choice.
• We provide you with your choice of hardware: Windows or Mac.