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Kafka Developer

Enterprise Minds, Inc

2 - 5 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 12/01/2026

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Job Description

Job Description: Kafka Application Developer

Experience: 48 Years

Location: Bangalore

Role Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled Kafka Application Developer to join a critical team that is starting immediately. The ideal candidate must have deep hands-on experience in building, integrating, and maintaining Kafka-based event-driven applications in production environments. This role requires a super-strong, independent contributor who can hit the ground running.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain Kafka-based applications for high-throughput, low-latency systems
  • Build and optimize Kafka producers and consumers for real-time data processing
  • Work on event-driven and streaming architectures using Kafka
  • Handle topic design, partitioning, replication, and message ordering
  • Ensure data reliability, fault tolerance, and performance tuning
  • Debug production issues related to lag, offsets, rebalancing, and message loss
  • Collaborate closely with backend, DevOps, and platform teams
  • Participate in design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions

Must-Have Skills (Non-Negotiable)

  • Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (core concepts is not enough)
  • Proven experience building Kafka applications in production
  • Deep understanding of:
  • Producers / Consumers
  • Consumer Groups
  • Offset management
  • Partitions & Replication
  • Kafka guarantees (at-least-once, exactly-once)
  • Strong programming experience in Java / Scala / Python (any one)
  • Experience with real-time data streaming / event-driven systems
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills

Good-to-Have Skills

  • Kafka Streams / Kafka Connect
  • Schema Registry (Avro / Protobuf / JSON)
  • Experience with microservices architecture
  • Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes
  • Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
  • Cloud exposure (AWS / Azure / GCP)

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