What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Kafka Developer position at Syntricate Technologies?
Skills Required :
- 12 Years of Experience in the software industry
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in relevant technical field
- Proven experience in Messaging systems, API integrations, Streaming platforms, Kafka
- Goal of this engagement
- Commercial Banking Enhanced Reporting and API product ionization
- Hands-on Technical Role, responsible for design, development, and deployment of end-end implementation, including Confluent Kafka, Integrations with source / target systems Enterprise middleware systems.
- 8 years of experience in Enterprise Middleware, Microservices, designing and implementing APIs.
- 5 years of experience architecting, designing, implementing, operating a streaming platform based on Confluent Kafka.
- 5 Years of experience in Confluent platform or Confluent Cloud.
- 5 years of Java, Spring Boot experience
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and operations, microservice architecture, integration patterns
- Deep understanding of different messaging paradigms (pub / sub, queuing), as well as delivery models, quality-of-service, and fault-tolerance architectures
- Established track record with Kafka technology, with hands-on production experience and a deep understanding of the Kafka architecture and internals of how it works, along with interplay of architectural components : brokers, Zookeeper, producers / consumers, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams
- Practical experience with how to scale Kafka, KStreams, and Connector infrastructures.
- Experience with Kafka Streams / KSQL architecture and associated clustering model.
- Hands-on experience as a developer who has used the Kafka API to build producer and consumer applications, along with expertise in implementing KStreams components.
- Have developed KStreams pipelines, as well as deployed KStreams clusters.
- Experience with developing KSQL queries and best practices of using KSQL vs KStreams
- Strong knowledge of the Kafka Connect framework, with experience using several connector types : HTTP REST proxy, JMS, File, SFTP, JDBC.
- Experience using Source / sink connectors as RDBMS, NoSQL data stores.
- Hands-on experience in designing, writing, and operationalizing new Kafka Connectors using the framework
- Strong familiarity of data formats such as XML, JSON, Avro, CSV, etc. along with serialization / deserialization options
- Familiarity of the Schema Registry
- Experience with monitoring Kafka infrastructure along with related components (Connectors, KStreams, and other producer / consumer apps)
- Familiarity with Confluent Control CenterFirm understanding of SDLC (systems development lifecycle)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting abilities
- Prior experience in banking / financial services industry and firm understanding of the banking data landscape.
