Confluent Kafka Senior Developer

2 weeks ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Diverse Lynx Full time

Diverse Lynx is seeking a seasoned Confluent Kafka expert to join our team as a Confluent Kafka Senior Developer.

About the Role

This position involves leading the design, implementation, and operation of streaming platforms based on Confluent Kafka. The ideal candidate will have strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and operations, microservice architecture, integration patterns.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the design, implementation, and operation of streaming platforms based on Confluent Kafka.
  • Develop and maintain high-quality APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
  • Design and implement scalable enterprise middleware solutions using microservices architecture.
Requirements

The successful candidate will have:

  • 10+ years of experience in Enterprise Middleware, Microservices, designing and implementing APIs.
  • 5+ years of experience architecting, designing, implementing, operating a streaming platform based on Confluent Kafka.
  • 5+ Years of experience in Confluent platform or Confluent Cloud.
  • 5+ years of Java, Spring Boot experience.
  • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and operations, microservice architecture, integration patterns.
  • Deep understanding of different messaging paradigms (pub/sub, queuing), as well as delivery models, quality-of-service, and fault-tolerance architectures.
  • Established track record with Kafka technology, with hands-on production experience and a deep understanding of the Kafka architecture and internals of how it works, along with interplay of architectural components: brokers, Zookeeper, producers/consumers, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams.
  • Practical experience with how to scale Kafka, KStreams, and Connector infrastructures.
  • Experience with Kafka Streams / KSQL architecture and associated clustering model.
  • Hands-on experience as a developer who has used the Kafka API to build producer and consumer applications, along with expertise in implementing KStreams components.
  • Have developed KStreams pipelines, as well as deployed KStreams clusters.
  • Experience with developing KSQL queries and best practices of using KSQL vs KStreams.
  • Strong knowledge of the Kafka Connect framework, with experience using several connector types: HTTP REST proxy, JMS, File, SFTP, JDBC.
  • Experience using Source/sink connectors as RDBMS, NoSQL data stores.
  • Hands-on experience in designing, writing, and operationalizing new Kafka Connectors using the framework.
  • Strong familiarity of data formats such as XML, JSON, Avro, CSV, etc. along with serialization/deserialization options.
  • Familiarity of the Schema Registry.
  • Experience with monitoring Kafka infrastructure along with related components (Connectors, KStreams, and other producer/consumer apps).
  • Familiarity with Confluent Control Center.
  • Firm understanding of SDLC (systems development lifecycle).
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Excellent analytical and troubleshooting abilities.
  • Prior experience in banking / financial services industry and firm understanding of the banking data landscape.

A competitive salary of $180,000 per year is offered to the successful candidate.



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