About us

Agap2 is a European IT and Engineering Consultancy, active in 14 countries with over 9.500 employees. The company was founded in Portugal and since 2014 we are based in the Netherlands with our Amsterdam office to provide our expertise to the Dutch market. Our employees are defined by the so-called “Agapian spirit”, which is summarized in 5 keywords: family, union, friendship, team spirit, and learning.

Did you identify with what defines us? Then read on to find out more!

The position

As a Kotlin Developer at agap2, you take on the challenge within an international environment with a local focus. You will have the opportunity to work on various projects over the years, based on your experience and interests. Projects within industries such as Banking, Fintech, Telco, Retail, Sports, and Healthcare.

While working at Agap2, you are expected to share your knowledge while also having the opportunity to learn new technologies. We believe that sharing knowledge is the key to personal development. Our talent management program is tailor-made to give you the opportunity to develop and grow in your career, the way you envision it. Because we work with various customers, you are also expected to be able to adapt to different environments.

Key Responsibilities

You will work in a microservices and event-driven environment, collaborating closely with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with distributed systems, cares about code quality and reliability, and is comfortable operating services in production.

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java and Kotlin, primarily with Spring Boot.
• Build and evolve event-driven architectures using tools such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Translate business requirements into clear technical designs and well-defined user stories.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs following best practices and architectural principles.
• Develop and maintain microservice-based architectures with a focus on scalability and resilience.
• Write high-quality unit and integration tests using frameworks such as JUnit, Mockk, and Mockito.
• Ensure system observability through monitoring, logging, and alerting, and actively participate in production support.
• Work with relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, QA, and DevOps.

What you bring to the position

• 7+ years of professional experience in backend development using Java and/or Kotlin.
• Strong hands-on experience with Spring Boot.
• Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and asynchronous communication patterns (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar).
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs.
• Proven experience working with microservices architectures.
• Strong knowledge of databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or similar technologies.
• Experience writing and maintaining unit and integration tests.
• Familiarity with observability best practices, including monitoring, logging, and alerting.

Nice to Have

• Experience working on high-volume, business-critical systems that must remain reliable under heavy load.
• Knowledge of design-for-failure patterns, such as idempotency, retries, fallbacks, and circuit breakers.
• Experience with contract-first REST API development using OpenAPI.
• Hands-on experience debugging distributed microservice systems.
• Understanding of performance testing and experience writing performance tests using Gatling (Kotlin).
• Some experience running, monitoring, and debugging services in Kubernetes environments.

What we offer

• Competitive Salary & Benefits: Including a laptop, mobile phone, full travel allowance and pension plan.
• Work-Life Balance: 25 vacation days, flexible working hours in a hybrid mode.
• Professional Growth: Weekly Dutch classes and a tailored talent management program with a financial budget to help you achieve your professional goals.
• Dynamic Culture: Diverse team activities from tech meetups to sports and social events.

Is there still room for fun? Of course! The combination of fun and development is essential in our team. A small impression: our team consists of more than 10 nationalities, we play paddle and regularly organize tech meetups, happy hours drinks, and pub quizzes.

At agap2 we defend equality and value diversity. We create a safe, diverse environment where opportunities are equal for all employees. All candidates with skills matching the position are welcome to join us!