Kafka Consultant

Job Type: Full-time

Location: Remote

Company Description

The Blue Owls Solutions specializes in delivering cutting-edge Generative AI Solutions, AI-Powered Software Development, and comprehensive Data Analytics and Engineering services. Our expertise in End-To-End ML/AI Development ensures that clients benefit from scalable and efficient AI-driven solutions tailored to their unique business needs. We create intelligent voice and text agents, chatbots, and process automation solutions, and our data analytics services provide actionable insights for strategic decision-making. Our mission is to bridge the gap between AI innovation and adoption, delivering value-driven, outcome-based solutions that empower our clients to achieve their business goals.

Role Description

We're seeking an enthusiastic Backend Developer who thrives on solving interesting challenges and building reliable, efficient applications. While basic competency in frontend (React) is sufficient, strong backend skills (Python, FastAPI, SQL, pandas) and cloud-native awareness are essential. The ideal candidate enjoys learning new tech stacks, and enjoys solving problems independently.

Required Skills (In order of importance)

• Strong proficiency in Python backend development with FastAPI.
• Familiarity with data analysis using pandas, numpy, and SQL.
• Familiarity with cloud-native concepts and containerization (Docker).
• Basic React skills for frontend integration.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, adaptability, and quick learning abilities.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ Years of experience as Backend Engineer
• Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
• Azure Cloud Experience.
• Experience writing clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• Experience in AI/ML development is a plus

Why Join Us?

• Collaborative, remote-first environment.
• Opportunities for rapid career growth and learning.
• Competitive Pay.
• Engaging projects focused on practical problem-solving.

What are the Key Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include writing and testing code, debugging programs, and integrating applications with third-party web services. 
• Write effective, scalable code
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications
• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solutions
• Assess and prioritize feature requests
• Creates customized applications for smaller tasks to enhance website capability based on business needs
• Ensures web pages are functional across different browser types; conducts tests to verify user functionality
• Verifies compliance with accessibility standards
• Assists in resolving moderately complex production support problems

What are we looking for:

• 3+ Years of work experience as a Python Developer
• Expertise in at least one popular Python framework: Django
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases (Elastic search, MongoDB)
• Familiarity with front-end technologies like JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Familiarity with Apache Kafka will give you an edge over others
• Good understanding of the operating system and networking concepts
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Graduation/Post Graduation in Computer Science / IT / Software Engineering
• Decent verbal and written communication skills to communicate with customers, support personnel, and management

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable, service oriented web applications from scratch for technology products for European market.
• Maintain these applications for accuracy and high availability.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve system designs, architecture and implementation standards
• Participate with founding, business and product teams in discussions on how to build and launch new modules.
• Collaborate across functions and own the planning, estimation and execution for parts of the product.
• Start as an individual contributor but stay ready to build and mentor a small team of up to 5 engineers over the coming months and years.
• Contribute in hiring highly ambitious engineers as the team grows.
• Being among the first people on the engineering team, be a culture driver.

Requirements:

• Experience of architecting and building products/business critical backend applications using different MVC frameworks.
• Experience with microservices.
• Experience of building and maintaining scalable applications using Node.js/MEAN stack.
• Experience of deploying and maintaining web applications.
• Experience with non relational databases like MongoDB.
• Understanding of relational databases like MySQL.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and stress testing tools.
• Good communication skills.

• Exposure in building polyglot applications.
• Exposure for devops and related processes, preferably GCP.
• Knowledge of components in scalable solutions i. e. database partitions, message brokers, background processing.
• Exposure to basic frontend technologies to speed up collaboration with the frontend team.