Kafka developer (Kafka, KSQL + DB2)

🚀 Hiring: MERN Stack at Deqode

⭐ Experience: 2+ Years

📍 Location: Mumbai

⭐ Work Mode:- 5 Days Work From Office

⏱️ Notice Period: Immediate Joiners or 15 Days

(Only immediate joiners & candidates serving notice period)

MERN Stack (2+ Years of Experience) - Mumbai

🔹 Experience: 2 to 4 Years

🔹Skills: MongoDB, Express, React, Node, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka

Position Overview: The Lead Software Architect - Python & Data Engineering is a senior technical leadership role responsible for designing and owning end-to-end architecture for data-intensive, AI/ML, and analytics platforms, while mentoring developers and ensuring technical excellence across the organization. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Design end-to-end software architecture for data-intensive applications, AI/ML pipelines, and analytics platforms
• Evaluate trade-offs between competing technical approaches 
• Define data models, API approach, and integration patterns across systems 
• Create technical specifications and architecture documentation 
• Lead by example through production-grade Python code and mentor developers on engineering fundamentals 
• Conduct design and code reviews focused on architectural soundness 
• Establish engineering standards, coding practices, and design patterns for the team 
• Translate business requirements into technical architecture 
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other teams to design integrated solutions 
• Whiteboard and defend system design and architectural choices 
• Take responsibility for system performance, reliability, and maintainability 
• Identify and resolve architectural bottlenecks proactively 

Required Skills:  

• 8+ years of experience in software architecture and development  
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field 
• Strong foundations in data structures, algorithms, and computational complexity 
• Experience in system design for scale, including caching strategies, load balancing, and asynchronous processing  
• 6+ years of Python development experience 
• Deep knowledge of Django, Flask, or FastAPI 
• Expert understanding of Python internals including GIL and memory management 
• Experience with RESTful API design and event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ) 
• Proficiency in data processing frameworks such as Pandas, Apache Spark, and Airflow 
• Strong SQL optimization and database design experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB)  Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud platforms 
• Knowledge of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) 
• Hands-on experience designing CI/CD pipelines Preferred (Bonus) 

Skills: 

• Experience deploying ML models to production (MLOps, model serving, monitoring) Understanding of ML system design including feature stores and model versioning 
• Familiarity with ML frameworks such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch  
• Open-source contributions or technical blogging demonstrating architectural depth 
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks for full-stack perspective

Location: Hybrid (Bangalore)

Travel: Quarterly travel to Seattle(US)

Education: B.Tech from premium institutes only

Note: Only immediate joiners required/ 0 to 15 Days — no other applications accepted.

Role Summary

We are seeking top-tier Lead Engineers who can design, build, and deliver large-scale distributed systems with high performance, reliability, and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on engineer with expert system design ability, deep understanding of distributed architectures, and strong communication and leadership skills.

The Lead Engineer must be able to convert complex and ambiguous requirements into a fully engineered architecture and implementation plan covering components, data flows, infrastructure, observability, and operations.

Key Responsibilities

1. End-to-End System Architecture

• Architect scalable, reliable, and secure systems from initial concept through production rollout.
• Define system boundaries, components, service responsibilities, and integration points.
• Produce high-level (HLD) and low-level design (LLD) documents.
• Ensure designs meet performance, reliability, security, and cost objectives.
• Make informed design trade-offs with solid technical reasoning.

2. Component & Communication Design

• Break complex systems into independently deployable services.
• Define APIs, communication contracts, data models, and event schemas.
• Apply modern architecture patterns such as microservices, event-driven design, DDD, CQRS, and hexagonal architecture.
• Ensure component clarity, maintainability, and extensibility.

3. Communication Protocol & Middleware

• Design both sync and async communication layers: REST, RPC, gRPC, message queues, event streams (Kafka/Kinesis/Pulsar).
• Define retry/timeout strategies, circuit breakers, rate limiting, and versioning strategies.
• Handle backpressure, partitioning, delivery semantics (at-least/at-most/exactly once).

4. Data Architecture & Storage Strategy

• Architect data models and storage strategies for SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed caches, blob stores, and search indexes.
• Define sharding/partitioning, replication, consistency, indexing, backup/restore, and schema evolution strategies.
• Design real-time and batch data processing pipelines.

5. Operational Readiness

• Define observability (metrics, logs, traces) requirements.
• Collaborate with DevOps to ensure deployment, monitoring, alerts, and incident management readiness.
• Provide production support as a senior technical owner.

6. Leadership & Influence

• Lead technical discussions, design reviews, and cross-team collaboration.
• Mentor engineers and help elevate team practices.
• Influence technology direction and architectural standards.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend and distributed systems background.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale architecture and delivery of production systems.
• Expert in system design with the ability to simplify ambiguity and craft robust solutions.
• Strong programming experience in one or more languages (Java, Go, Python, C++).
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, message streaming, queues, RPC/REST, and event-driven architecture.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and container technologies (Kubernetes/Docker).
• Strong communication, documentation, and leadership skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with large-scale messaging/streaming (Kafka/Pulsar), caching, and NoSQL.
• Experience designing for high availability, fault tolerance, and performance at scale.
• Mentoring and leading global engineering teams.
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger). 

• Hands-on expertise in managing technical teams and work closely with business stakeholders
• Should be familiar with card testing and POS ecosystem.
• Experience with designing APIs and building platform integrations in Commerce, POS, FinTech and Payments
• Payment’s domain experience.
• Extensive experience on Base24 & SWITCH part for payment format.
• Exposure on ISO8583 Messaging system.
• API understanding and creation.
• Working knowledge on cryptographic algorithms (RSA, EC, AES, SHA variants), TLS/SSL protocols. C Symetric and A symetrics, K.M.S.
• Digital Payments technical knowledge - QR/ POS/ UPI/ BQR
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, containerization, Docker
• Must have strong technical skills in Android APK and iOS development Concept and Web services.
• Supportability, monitoring, ops in general.
• Accurate cost models to deploy and operate
• Extensive experience in TLOG’s, data integration with downstream applications, and impact of POS changes on different financial, legal, compliance, loss prevention, etc. applications.
• Extensive experience with payment systems 7861 (EMV, payment middleware, encryption, tokenization, settlement, offline scenarios,).
• Extensive experience with different types of payment methods including credit, debit, gift cards (Both closed loop and open loop), PLCC, PayPal, AliPay, checks, etc. as well as different payment form factors like Tap N Go, contactless, swipe, EMV, Mobile, etc.
• Extensive experience with payment devices (pin pads, printers, registers, scanners).
• Experience in Node.js / Java / Python, building REST APIs, with experience/exposure to front end stack like JavaScript & React / Angular. 
• Experience with Storage systems - RDBMS, NoSQL (Cassandra/MongoDB), Redis/Memcache/Aerospike.
• Experience in messaging tools like Kafka/AWS Kinesis etc...
• Design expertise for performance, scalability, fault tolerance and high availability

• Experience with POS systems and Payments domain.
• Demonstrated experience for systems architecture, design, and integration for POS systems
• Java and/or Node.js. Experience building micro services (REST APIs) using Node.js
• Experience with one or more RDBMS databases like MySql, PostGreSQL
• Experience with one or more NoSQL databses like MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Aerospike, Elastic Search, Redis, neo4j etc.,
• Caching technologies like: Redis, Elasticache,
• Cloud Providers like: AWS/ Google Cloud / Azure
• CI / CD : Jenkins, Docker, Kubernete
  

About the job

About Reflektive's Engineering Team

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Front End to help scale Reflektive to being the market leader for employee performance management. The main question to be answered: Can you help a

company scale?

Reflektive has major initiatives to tackle in the next year. Initiatives range from internal scaling, security, engagement, new verticals, pervasive technologies, research and development, data and

analytics, and customer tools. Reflektive’s Senior Software Engineer will contribute in their area of specialization. S/he will help us solve complex design challenges and mature our platform to handle

increasing traffic and scale.

You'll join a lean, prolific team where everyone, including you, is active in the product-defining and development process (where deploying new features every 2 weeks is common). You'll know the

customers we're talking to, and the needs of each one. As a result, you know where your initiative and drive can best make a difference (and be recognized!)

Our engineering team consists of developers from a wide array of backgrounds. Our team primarily focuses on Rails and Javascript, but is always ready to use the best tool for the job when it makes

sense. Following Scrum practices, we work closely with the Product Management team to develop features that focus on empowering and developing employees. Our team is a tight knit, friendly

group of engineers that are dedicated to learning from and teaching to each other. Team members regularly contribute to and optimize our engineering practices and processes. Our team wants to

make software engineering fun, easy, and fulfilling, so we've come up with a set of values that we

apply to our software every day: Simple, Flexible, Consistent, Predictable, Efficient, and Pragmatic.

Responsibilities

● Depending on your specialization, projects/initiatives may include: Security, scaling distributed systems, working on our core services related to user management, building out new verticals, guiding new engagement features, scaling traffic/imports/exports,

and managing APIs.

● Work extremely cross-functionally across Engineering and Product Management.

● Deliverable: (30 days) Own a feature; possibly being paired with another engineer. (60days) Own and drive a new initiative. (90 days) Bring that initiative to production.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Expert proficiency in Java/Kotlin, Kafka/Pulsar, SQL, Docker and kubernetes.
• Overall 4+ years of experience as Java full stack developer using any modern frameworks.
• Strong knowledge on Data structure and Algorithm knowledge
• Previous experience working in ReactJS/AngularJS (2+ years)
• Knowledge of Analytics and LookerML would be added plus.
• Exposure to cloud environment AWS.
• Knowledge of unit testing frameworks including Junit.
• Startup experience is strongly desired.
• You learn quickly, you’re adaptable and versatile.
• Experience in an Agile and Scrum environment.

About Reflektive

Forward-thinking organizations use Reflektive’s people management platform to drive employee performance and development with Real-Time Feedback, Recognition, Check-Ins, Goal Management,

Performance Reviews, 1-on-1 Profiles, and Analytics. Reflektive’s more than 500 customers include Blue Origin, Comcast, Instacart, Dollar Shave Club, Healthgrades, Wavemaker Global, and Protective

Life. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and TPG Growth, Reflektive has raised more than $100 million to date, and was ranked the 13th Fastest Growing Company in North

America on Deloitte’s 2018 Technology Fast 500TM.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status,

veteran status, or disability status.

About Merchandise Operation (Merch Ops): Merchandise Operations (Merch Ops) is a merchandise management system, it is positioned as a host system in the retail solutions, it has ability to maintain the Master/Foundation data, create and manage Purchase Orders, create, and manage Prices & Promotions, perform Replenishment, effective inventory control and financial management. Merc Ops provides Business users with consistent, accurate, and timely data across an enterprise by allowing them to get the:

Right Goods in the...

• Right Silhouettes, Sizes and Colors; at the...

• Right Price; at the...

• Right Location; for the...

• Right Consumer; at the...

• Right Time; at the...

• Right Quantity.

About Team:

• Proven, passionate bunch of disruptors providing solutions that solve real-time supply chain problems.

• Well mixed experienced team with young members and experienced in product, domain, and Industry knowledge.

• Gained Expertise in designing and deploying massively scalable cloud native SaaS products

• The team currently comprises of associates across the globe and is expected to grow rapidly.

Our current technical environment:

• Software: React JS, Node JS, Oracle PL/SQL, GIT, Rest API. Java script.

• Application Architecture: Scalable three tier web application.

• Cloud Architecture: Private cloud, MS Azure (ARM templates, AKS, HD insight, Application gateway, Virtue Networks, Event Hub, Azure AD) • Frameworks/Others: Tomcat Apache, RDBMS, Jenkins, Nginx, Oracle Type ORM, Express.

What you'll be doing:

• As a Staff Engineer you will be responsible for the design of the features in the product roadmap

• Creating and encouraging good software development practices engineering-wide, driving strategic technical improvements, and mentoring other engineers.

• You will write code as we expect our technical leadership to be in the trenches alongside junior engineers, understanding root causes and leading by example

• You will mentor engineers

• You will own relationships with other engineering teams and collaborate with other functions within Blue Yonder

• Drive architecture and designs to become simpler, more robust, and more efficient.

• Lead designs discussion and come up with robust and more efficient designs to achieve features in product roadmap

• Take complete responsibility of the features developed right from coding till deployments

• Introduce new technology and tools for the betterment of the product

• Guides fellow engineers to look beyond the surface and fix the root causes rather than symptoms.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree (B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech Computer science or related specialization) and minimum 7 to 10 years of experience in Software development, has been an Architect, within the last 1-2 years minimum. • Strong programming experience and background in Node JS and React JS.

• Hands-on development skills along with architecture/design experience.

• Hands-on experience on designing, building deploying and maintenance of enterprise cloud solutions.

• Demonstrable experience, thorough knowledge, and interests in Cloud native architecture, Distributed micro-services, Multi-tenant SaaS solution and Cloud Scalability, performance, and High availability

• Experience with API management platforms & providing / consuming RESTful APIs

• Experience with varied tools such as REST, Hibernate, RDBMS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, React.

• Hands-on development experience on Oracle PL/SQL.

• Experience with DevOps and infrastructure automation.

EXPERTISE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 14+ years of experience in Software Engineering with at least 6+ years as a Lead Enterprise Architect preferably in a software product company
• High technical credibility - ability to lead technical brainstorming, take decisions and push for the best solution to a problem
• Experience in architecting Microservices based E2E Enterprise Applications
• Experience in UI technologies such as Angular, Node.js or Fullstack technology is desirable
• Experience with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, Neo4j etc.)
• Elastic Search, Kibana, ELK, Logstash.
• Good understanding of Kafka, Redis, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Solr etc.
• Exposure in SaaS cloud-based platform.
• Experience on Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Experience in planning, designing, developing and delivering Enterprise Software using Agile Methodology
• Key Programming Skills: Java, J2EE with cutting edge technologies
• Hands-on technical leadership with proven ability to recruit and mentor high performance talents including Architects, Technical Leads, Developers
• Excellent team building, mentoring and coaching skills are a must-have
• A proven track record of consistently setting and achieving high standards

Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus

1. Cloud Product Company: We are a Cloud SaaS Company, and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React.

2. A Market Leader: Zycus is recognized by Gartner (world’s leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites.

3. Move between Roles: We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization

4. Get a Global Exposure: You get to work and deal with our global customers.

5. Create an Impact: Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.

About Us

Zycus is a pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end-users.

Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive, and easy-

to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization.

Start your #CognitiveProcurement journey with us, as you are #MeantforMore

Expi with Node.js, Express, Feather JS
3rd party API integration knowledge
Database- MySql or NoSql

Kafka Client Integration with Nodejs

Redis integration using Nodejs

1. Extensive experience in Javascript / NodeJS in the back end
2. Front end frameworks such as Bootstrap, Pug, Jquery
3. Experience in web frameworks like ExpressJS, Webpack
4. Experience in Nginx, Redis, Apache Kafka and MQTT
5. Experience with MongoDB
6. Experience with Version Control Systems like Git / Mercurial
7. Sound knowledge in Software engineering best practices
8. Sound knowledge in RestFul API Design
9. Working knowledge of Automated testing tools
10. Experience in maintaining production servers (Optional)
11. Experience with Azure DevOps (Optional)

1. Experience in digital payments or financial services industry is a plus.
2. Participation in the processes of strategic project-planning meetings.
3. Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle.
4. Collaborate with External Development Teams.
5. Define and communicate technical and design requirements, understanding workflows and write code as per requirements.
6. Develop functional and sustainable web applications with clean codes.
7. Focus on coding and debugging.