Senior Backend Engineer Cloud Native/ Kafka
Job Description
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, cloud\'native backend services
- Build and support event\'driven and asynchronous systems using streaming and messaging platforms(Kafka)
- Engineer low\'latency, high\'throughput systems with strong resiliency and fault tolerance
- Optimize performance for compute\' and data\'intensive workloads
- Collaborate with platform, DevOps, and Front office teams to deliver end\'to\'end solutions
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and production readiness assessments
- Troubleshoot production issues and drive performance, reliability, and scalability improvements
- Contribute to engineering standards, best practices, and mentoring
Required Skills & Experience
- 610+ years of experience in backend software engineering
- Strong proficiency in Java, Python, or similar backend languages
- Solid experience building microservices and REST / async APIs
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and scalability patterns
- Hands\'on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Experience with event streaming / messaging systems (Kafka or equivalent)
- Strong problem\'solving skills and ability to work in complex, evolving systems
Good to Have
- High\'Performance Computing (HPC) experience, including performance tuning, parallelism, or compute\'intensive workloads
- Experience using Redis for caching, pub/sub, or distributed state management
- Strong working knowledge of Apache Kafka, including producers/consumers, schemas, and stream processing
- Experience with Symphony\'based integrations or platforms (messaging, workflows, or automation)
- Basic to intermediate exposure to C++, or comfort understanding and modifying C++ code
- Experience with low\'latency / real\'time systems
- Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD pipelines
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