Java Kafka Engineer

We are looking for a highly skilled Software Engineer with strong experience in Java distributed systems and streambased processing to join our engineering team You will design build and operate backend services that handle highthroughput workloads integrate with cloud platforms and support businesscritical applications This role also involves working with Nodejs services CICD pipelines and modern infrastructure tooling including Kubernetes GitHub Actions AWS and GCP Responsibilities Include This is a critical role with a wide range of responsibilities including Design implement and maintain distributed backend services using Java and Nodejs Build and optimize messagedriven architectures and data pipelines using Apache Kafka Develop scalable resilient APIs and backend services Write clean maintainable and welltested code following industry best practices Deploy monitor and support applications running on Kubernetes across cloud environments Work closely with architects and product teams to design system components and integrations Participate in code reviews system design discussions and operational readiness efforts Troubleshoot production issues across services and infrastructure Prototyping of new technologies to reduce cost and increase engineering velocity Qualities Experience Were Seeking We believe the right individual will have the following skills and experience to be successful in this role A BS degree or higher in Engineering Computer Science or a related field is required 5 years of software engineering experience Strong Java experience in backend or distributed systems environments Handson experience with Kafka producers consumers partitions topics offsets stream processing etc Proficiency in Nodejs for backend application development Experience deploying and maintaining services running in Kubernetes Familiarity with GitHub Actions for CICD Handson experience with AWS andor GCP cloud platforms Solid understanding of software design patterns system architecture and microservices principles Experience working with MongoDB and PostgreSQL schema design performance considerations migrations Strong debugging problemsolving and communication skills Excellent problemsolving critical thinking and communication skills Ability to work within a distributed team Nice to have VOD Streaming experience Experience with React basic frontend integration work context management UI components Exposure to infrastructureascode tools Terraform Helm etc Monitoringobservability tools Datadog NewRelic