Kafka Streams Senior Engineer/Architect

Job description

Do you want to build a high-quality data platform on top of Kafka that will innovate financial markets? Does event-driven architecture spark your interest? Do you want to work for a company that uses modern techniques to achieve the best results for its clients while empowering and supporting you to realize your full potential?

We are an experienced team of Spring committers, Kafka contributors, ex-Pivotal, Google, Apple engineers. If you want to know more, keep reading or reach out for a chat.

About us

We are a VC-backed fintech with a live product in the regulatory trade reporting space and a growing list of institutional clients (B2B). Our product journey has started in the US with a roadmap into Canada, UK, EU, Australia, and Singapore over the next twelve months. We are a start-up on a fast paced journey to scale-up.

KOR is built on leading edge cloud technology by industry domain experts and world class in-house engineering. We're on a mission to innovate B2B trade servicing starting with regulatory reporting in time for a global wave of mandated changes hitting all segments of market participants across OTC derivatives transactions. We're solving the most challenging problems around by bringing fresh designs and solutions to data utility, quality, and processing inefficiencies. . . while unlocking insane value for clients.

Teamwork and laser focus are central to everything we do at KOR. With the right support, we believe small independent teams with deep expertises achieve better results and encourage skilled people to take responsibility and grow their careers. We live by the mantra of work humble, work smart, and work together.

About you

You have a passion for high-quality, reliable, and maintainable code. You have experience with running payloads on top of Kafka and Kafka Streams in production. You get excited by the idea of contributing directly to Kafka and Kafka Streams. You're comfortable working with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions to deliver valuable working software to clients and their users quickly. You're agile and retrospective and not afraid to identify what we're doing wrong so we can fix it and what we're doing right to improve on it. Above all, you judge your success by the success of your team and the happiness of our customers.

Responsibilities

As a Kafka Streams Senior Engineer/Architect at KOR, you get to own and design parts of the KOR Platform. We value your ideas, and you'll play a key role in developing products that our customers will love using. Of course, we don't expect you to know it all, but your natural desire to learn will help you overcome new challenges and prove yourself as a valuable member of the KOR team.

Day to day, you'll be:

• Designing and implementing the streaming data platform engine and SDK.

• Assisting in the design and implementation of our Kafka application architecture.

• Implementing new features for our range of web and streaming applications and data reporting capabilities.

• Be an active voice in the platform's build-out in regards to the technical choices and implementations.

• Working closely with the broader team to embrace new challenges and adapt requirements as we continue to grow and adjust priorities.

• Paired programming with a growing team of Back-end, Data, and Front-end Engineers.

Job requirements Experience and attributes

• 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.

Plus to have

• Kafka or Kafka Streams contributor.

• Working experience with DataBricks and Big Data solutions.

• Experience with horizontally scalable and highly available system design and implementation, focusing on performance and resiliency.

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, or Information Technology.

The main tools and frameworks we use daily:

• K8s

• AWS

• OSX (Mac)

• IntelliJ

• Github (Actions)

• DataDog

• Confluent Cloud

• Argo CD

We're still in the build stage, so introducing new tools and approaches are entirely on the table.

At KOR, the company culture is essential to us. Therefore, we are looking for an open-minded, humble, driven, communicative team player to join us.

What we have to offer

Depending on you and your priorities, we offer the following:

• Culture of trust, empowerment, and constructive feedback.

• Competitive salary, great IT equipment, and expense allowance.

• Flexible working times.

• Fully Remote

• A span of control that matches your ambitions and skills.

Above and beyond this, we will provide a commitment to a genuine, balanced relationship. We will listen to you, take your needs and wishes seriously, and work to help you grow professionally.

So, if you're a Kafka Streams Engineer/Architect who wants the chance to grow, maybe it's time to join a company that values what you do and helps you achieve your goals.

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