KOR Financial

Kafka Streams Senior Engineer/Architect

KOR Financial

full-time

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Location: Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaKafkaKubernetesSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

  • Own and design parts of the KOR Platform
  • Design and implement the streaming data platform engine and SDK
  • Assist in the design and implementation of our Kafka application architecture
  • Implement new features for web and streaming applications and data reporting capabilities
  • Be an active voice in the platform's build-out regarding technical choices and implementations
  • Work closely with the broader team to embrace new challenges and adapt requirements
  • Paired programming with a growing team of Back-end, Data, and Front-end Engineers
  • Contribute to delivering valuable working software to clients and their users quickly

Requirements

  • A minimum of 8+ years of experience as a Back End Engineer
  • Knowledge of Kafka and Kafka Streams including state stores
  • Demonstrable experience running and maintaining Kafka Streams workloads in production
  • Good understanding of the Processor API inside Kafka Streams
  • Experience with Java and Spring Boot Framework
  • Experience with building and running applications on public cloud vendors like AWS
  • Experience profiling, debugging, and performance tuning complex distributed systems
  • A firm reliance on unit testing and mocking frameworks with a TDD (Test Driven Development) mindset
  • Knowledge of OOP principles and modern development practices
  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, or Information Technology
  • Plus: Kafka or Kafka Streams contributor (nice to have)
  • Plus: Working experience with DataBricks and Big Data solutions
  • Experience with horizontally scalable and highly available system design and implementation, focusing on performance and resiliency
  • Familiarity with tools: K8s, AWS, OSX (Mac), IntelliJ, GitHub (Actions), DataDog, Confluent Cloud, Argo CD
  • Work authorization: KOR is not in the position to provide work visa (no sponsorship)