Java Kafka Developer

Kafka Developer

Jersey City NJ

Position Description
Join high performing Investment Banking Capital Market IT team as a Kafka Developer where working on latest technology stack and solving the complex business problem. Team is working in Agile framework with fast ready to deliver environment.

This role based out of Jersey City; hybrid role 3 days a week in client office (no option for fully remote).

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Develop backend Big Data services architecture using Kafka Framework (Kafka Connect/Kafka streams)

• Develop Kafka consumers to read and process messages from Kafka topics for downstream systems or applications.

• Optimize the performance of Kafka producers, consumers, and clusters, tuning configurations for memory, throughput, and latency.

• Develop the underlying framework to rewrite the enterprise services using the newly developed architecture

• Plan for Kafka s scalability, ensuring the infrastructure can handle increased message throughput as the system grow

• Work with client engineering and DevOps teams to develop the required technical environments to implement the new architecture

• Create detailed forward-looking technical roadmaps and architectural designs.

• Drive the delivery of new and innovative technology solutions.

• Partner with product managers to ensure the product meets customer expectations.

• Mentor and train other developers on coding practices and standards.

• Maintain a process-oriented culture leading the team in developing software products using agile methodologies.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

• Consultants with 8-10 years of experience in Big Data development environment.

• Expert working knowledge in Kafka messaging stream processing technology framework.

• Experience in design and building high performance, high availability, scalable, distributed applications capable of supporting straight through processing of large amount of data.

• Deep knowledge of Microservices architecture, REST APIs. Produce Microservice designs and develop them into fully working systems.

• Experience with web services development using SpringBoot/Container/Batch framework.

• Working knowledge of architectures using Distributed caching using EhCache / Gigaspaces or similar engines.

• Development experience using Java and Python

• Experience in PL-SQL/StoredProc with database like Oracle, Sybase, etc.

• Working Knowledge of in memory data stores: Ignite or Redis and distributed processing frameworks like Apache Flink

• Worked in projects with Investment Banking Financial Services Capital Markets domain