Wow, Kotlin/JS vacancy in a bank. > Apart from implementing requested business features and regul...

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[bashor]

Wow, Kotlin/JS vacancy in a bank.

Apart from implementing requested business features and regulatory requirements the team is focusing in consolidating all frontend technologies into one HTML/KotlinJS solution. Several applications have already been migrated but many are waiting. The development is fully strongly typed including Client to Server communication. Kotlin Type Safe Builders are used for layout construction. Selenium is used for test automation.

https://barclays.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=90164661

[ribesg]

Java backend and Kotlin frontend? Ok but why?

[bashor]

Do you mean combination?

[bashor]

I guess they meant “JVM backend”

[napperley]

Surprised that some of the backend isn't written in Kotlin (via Kotlin JVM) even though Kotlin is used for some of the frontend (via Kotlin JS). Would make much more sense to use Kotlin JS as part of a web stack where all key parts are written in Kotlin (Kotlin JVM for backend and Kotlin JS for frontend).

[napperley]

Does JB have its Czech Republic office close by to the Barclay's one?

[napperley]

This could be the physical address (https://www.expats.cz/en/prague/czech/banks/barclays/contact#contact-details) for the Barclay's office in CZ:

Barclays Capital Services Limited
Na Pankraci 127 
Prague 
14000

Location on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Na+Pankr%C3%A1ci+127,+140+62+Praha+4,+Czechia/@50.0517375,14.4400209,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x470b9475e5465297:0x4b02b5555b0339e6!8m2!3d50.0517375!4d14.4400209

[napperley]

Seems to be the place: https://www.yelp.com/biz/barclays-capital-praha

[jean]

hi guys, this our team. Position is still open :) Reason why backend is in Java is because the source code is huge and old. We do not want to complicate even more, at least for time being.