Kafka developer (Kafka, KSQL + DB2)

Job Summary:

We are seeking passionate Developers with experience in Microservices architecture to join our team in Noida. The ideal candidate should have hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and front-end technologies like Angular, JavaScript, and Bootstrap. You will be responsible for developing enterprise-grade software applications that enhance patient safety worldwide.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain applications using Microservices architecture.
• Work with modern technologies like Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Angular, Kafka, Redis, and Hazelcast.
• Utilize AWS, Git, Nginx, Tomcat, Oracle, Jira, Confluence, and Jenkins for development and deployment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and build scalable enterprise applications.
• Develop intuitive UI/UX components using Bootstrap, jQuery, and JavaScript.
• Ensure high-performance, scalable, and secure applications for Fortune 100 pharmaceutical companies.
• Participate in Agile development, managing changing priorities effectively.
• Conduct code reviews, troubleshoot issues, and optimize application performance.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Java 7/8, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
• Strong knowledge of OOP concepts and Design Patterns.
• Experience working with relational databases (Oracle/MySQL).
• Proficiency in Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, and Angular.
• Hands-on experience in Microservices-based application development.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and manage multiple priorities.
• Experience in developing high-quality web applications.

Good to Have:

• Exposure to Kafka, Redis, and Hazelcast.
• Experience working with cloud-based solutions (AWS preferred).
• Familiarity with DevOps tools like Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Your Opportunity Join our dynamic team as a Full Stack Software Dev, where you'll work at the intersection of innovation and leadership. You'll be part of a passionate group of engineers dedicated to building cutting-edge SaaS solutions that solve real customer challenges. This role is perfect for an experienced engineer who thrives on managing teams, collaborating with leadership, and driving product development. You’ll work directly with the CEO and senior architects, ensuring that our products meet the highest design and performance standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and mentor a team of engineers to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions.
• Coordinate closely with the CEO and product leadership to align on goals and drive the vision forward.
• Collaborate with distributed teams to design, build, and refine core product features that serve a global audience.
• Stay hands-on with coding and architecture, driving key services and technical initiatives from end to end.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize existing systems to ensure smooth product operations.
• Requirements & Technical Skills
• Bachelor's/Master’s/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields (B.Tech, M.Tech, B.CA, B.E./M.E).
• 4 to 8 years of hands-on experience as a software developer, ideally in a SaaS environment.
• Proven track record in developing scalable, distributed systems and services.
• Solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Strong programming experience in Spring & Hibernate with Kotlin, React, Nest.js, Python, and Shell scripting.
• Expertise in Unix-based systems, container technologies, and virtual machines.
• Knowledge of both relational and non-relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DocumentDB). Preferred Qualifications
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
• Experience working on both structured and unstructured data sources. Soft Skills
• Strong leadership, coaching, and mentoring capabilities to inspire and guide a team of engineers.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptable to new technologies in a fast-paced environment.

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

·      Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging

·      Ability to design and document the product features, codes.

·      Self-driven and ability to take up ownership of things

·      Write clean code to develop functional applications, automation scripts, test cases

·      Troubleshoot and debug applications

·      Collaborate with developers, cross-functional teams to identify issue, new features and come up with solutions

·      Gather and address technical and design requirements

·      Provide training and support to internal teams

·      Build reusable code and libraries for future use

·      Ability to sync with other developers, designers to identify issues, new features and improvements

Requirements and skills:

·      Solid understanding of linux development environment and systems

·      Expert level knowledge of Python along with frameworks like Django, flask

·      Proficient in writing unit test cases using Pytest framework.

·      Expert level knowledge of SQL databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL

·      Good knowledge of design principles and databases

·      Knowledge of front technologies like Typescript, ReactJs

·      Knowledge of Caching techniques using Memcached and Redis

·      Experience of using queueing service line Kafka

·      Solid understanding of microservices architecture

·      Knowledge of AWS cloud services

·      Expert in serverless technologies like lambda along with API gateway

·      Knowledge of Git, Jira, CI/CD pipelines and containerization like docker

·      Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools like Grafana or Newrelic

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.

Required a full stack Senior SDE with focus on Backend microservices/ modular monolith with 3-4+ years of experience on the following:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry technical skills
• Mandatory In-depth knowledge and strong experience in Python programming language.
• Expertise and significant work experience in Python with Fastapi and Async frameworks. 
• Prior experience building Microservice and/or modular monolith.
• Should be an expert Object Oriented Programming and Design Patterns.
• Has knowledge and experience with SQLAlchemy/ORM, Celery, Flower, etc.
• Has knowledge and experience with Kafka / RabbitMQ, Redis.
• Experience in Postgres/ Cockroachdb.
• Experience in MongoDB/DynamoDB and/or Cassandra are added advantages.
• Strong experience in either AWS services (e.g, EC2, ECS, Lambda, StepFunction, S3, SQS, Cognito). and/or equivalent Azure services preferred.
• Experience working with Docker required.
• Experience in socket.io added advantage
• Experience with CI/CD e.g. git actions preferred. 
• Experience in version control tools Git etc.

This is one of the early positions for scaling up the Technology team. So culture-fit is really important.

• The role will require serious commitment, and someone with a similar mindset with the team would be a good fit. It's going to be a tremendous growth opportunity. There will be challenging tasks. A lot of these tasks would involve working closely with our AI & Data Science Team.
• We are looking for someone who has considerable expertise and experience on a low latency highly scaled backend / fullstack engineering stack. The role is ideal for someone who's willing to take such challenges.
• Coding Expectation – 70-80% of time.
• Has worked with enterprise solution company / client or, worked with growth/scaled startup earlier.
• Skills to work effectively in a distributed and remote team environment.

Job Responsibilities

·        Responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to, the following.

·        Development experience 3-6 years

·        Experience working with Azure cloud-hosted web applications and technologies.

·        Design and develop back-end microservices and REST APIs for connected devices, web applications, and mobile applications.

·        Stay up to date on relevant technologies, plug into user groups, and understand trends and opportunities that ensure we are using the best techniques and tools.

• Meeting with the software development team to define the scope and scale of software projects.
• Designing software system architecture.
• Completing data structures and design patterns.
• Designing and implementing scalable web services, applications, and APIs.
• Developing and maintaining internal software tools.
• Writing low-level and high-level code.
• Troubleshooting and bug fixing.
• Identifying bottlenecks and improving software efficiency.
• Collaborating with the design team on developing micro-services.
• Writing technical documents.
• Be an active professional in continuous learning resulting in enhancement in organizational objectives.
• Provide technical support to all internal teams and customers as it relates to the product.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or computer science.
• Previous experience as a full stack engineer and IoT Products.
• Advanced knowledge of front-end languages including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, React.
• Proficient in back-end languages including Nodejs and basic knowledge of Java, C#.
• Experience with cloud computing APIs and Cloud Providers such as Azure or AWS.

·        Working knowledge of database systems (Cassandra, CosmosDB, Redis, PostgreSQL)

·        Messaging systems (RabbitMQ, MQTT, Kafka)

·        Cloud-based distributed application scaling & data processing in the cloud

·        Agile / Scrum methodology

• Advanced troubleshooting skills.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks.
• Good communication skills.

High-level project management skills.

Technical Leader reporting to the CTO/CEO. Your responsibilities include the following, but are not limited to:

1. Architecting, Designing and Developing Software Programmes based on requirements provided
2. Designing and Developing with a high quality of code that is modular, scalable and re-usable at all times
3. Promote SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) to ensure all of the services are Highly-Available and Fault Tolerant at all times
4. Communicate effectively the system requirements to other software development teams
5. Involve pro-actively with client and their requirements
6. Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and suggest integration methods
7. Oversee assigned programs (e.g. conduct code review) and provide guidance to team members
8. Assist with solving technical problems when they arise
9. Ensure the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure
10. Address technical concerns, ideas and suggestions
11. Monitor systems to ensure they meet both user needs and business goals

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.