Senior Kafka / Java Engineer

About the Role:

• Be the in-house expert for Apache Kafka and Java services built with Spring Boot.
• Design, build, and run mission-critical Spring Boot—based Kafka services.
• Establish the patterns, tooling, and best practices the rest of engineering will follow.

You'll Excel At:

• Building and maintaining production services with Spring Boot.
• Designing topics, partitions, and consumer groups for high-throughput, low-latency workloads.
• Reasoning about eventual consistency, backpressure, failure modes, and observability.

What You'll Do:

• Create libraries, templates, and documentation for Java-based Kafka clients.
• Help define coding standards, testing strategies, and resiliency patterns for streaming workloads.
• Partner with backend engineers, data engineers, DevOps, and product to design end-to-end streaming solutions.