Kafka Developer

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)