Kafka developer (Kafka, KSQL + DB2)

Essential Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the Agile software development life cycle and distinguish the core inputs and outputs in each cycle.
• Work closely with your peers and keep engaging in a fast pace technical design and development team
• Execute in a fast pace delivery mode and focus on delivering tasks to meet monthly and quarterly digital product release goals
• Lead impact assessment and decisions related to technology choices, design / architectural considerations and implementation strategy
• Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation
• Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment
• Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules
• Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.
• Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
• Drive design reviews, define interfaces between code modules, and apply existing technology to designs
• Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
• 6+ years of experience in Full Stack Software Development within the enterprise or software services domain

Desired Skills:

• Expertise in full stack software development and awareness of 12 Factor software patterns
• Experience and knowledge of patterns and anti-patterns of microservices-based architecture design
• Experience developing and deploying applications on cloud (Azure, AWS, or GCP), on-premise, and hybrid-based architectures
• Mid-Level to Expert within one or more of the following UI development JavaScript: Client-Side HTML5 jQuery, jQuery UI, Knockout.js,
• Polymer, AngularJS, ReactJS, Bootstrap
• Mid-Level to Expert within one or more of the back-end development languages: .NET, Java, Python, or Scala
• Very solid API skills (e.g. Express.js/Node.js, GraphQL/Relay, Flask, Jersey, Java Spring REST or WebApi2)
• Skilled in use of Java, Kafka, and Spark streaming technologies
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Rancher, Kubernetes, Docker and Helm
• Hands-on experience in data storage environments of many types (RDMS, NoSQL, HDFS, etc.)
• Knowledge of GitLab, Jenkins and Artifactory
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and OO Design with rock-solid programming skills
• Security: Identity Management and Access, application security and static code analysis
• Proven success working in and promoting a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment
• Strong interpersonal skills, analytical skills, combined with intellectual curiosity, and a desire and ability to "get things done" are essential
• Agile Scrum development experience
• Added advantage to those having experience in multi-tenant SaaS Platform and Developers' Portal development

About HighLevel:

HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-one white-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. With a focus on streamlining marketing efforts and providing comprehensive solutions, HighLevel helps businesses of all sizes achieve their marketing goals. We currently have 1000+ employees across 15 countries, working remotely as well as in our headquarters, which is located in Dallas, Texas. Our goal as an employer is to maintain a strong company culture, foster creativity and collaboration, and encourage a healthy work-life balance for our employees wherever they call home.

Our Website - https://www.gohighlevel.com/

YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFiV4qDX5ipE-DQcsm1j4g

Blog Post - https://blog.gohighlevel.com/general-atlantic-joins-highlevel/

Our Customers:

HighLevel serves a diverse customer base, including over 60K agencies & entrepreneurs and 450K million businesses globally. Our customers range from small and medium-sized businesses to enterprises, spanning various industries and sectors.

Scale at HighLevel:

Work with scale, our infrastructure handles around 30 Billion+ API hits, 20 Billion+ message events, and more than 200 TeraBytes of data

About the role:

Seeking a Full Stack Developer with a minimum of 1+ year's hands-on experience in Node.js and Vue.js (or React/Angular). You will be instrumental in building cutting-edge, AI-powered products.

Team-Specific Focus Areas:

Conversations AI:

-Develop AI solutions for appointment booking, forms filling, sales, and intent recognition

-Ensure seamless integration and interaction with users through natural language processing and understanding

Workflows AI:

-Create and optimize AI-powered workflows to automate and streamline business processes

Voice AI:

-Focus on VOIP technology with an emphasis on low latency and high-quality voice interactions

-Fine-tune voice models for clarity, accuracy, and naturalness in various applications

Support AI:

-Integrate AI solutions with FreshDesk and ClickUp to enhance customer support and ticketing systems

-Develop tools for automated response generation, issue resolution, and workflow management

Platform AI:

-Oversee AI training, billing, content generation, funnels, image processing, and model evaluations

-Ensure scalable and efficient AI models that meet diverse platform needs and user demands

Responsibilities:

• REST APIs - Understanding REST philosophy. Writing secure, reusable, testable, and efficient APIs.
• Database - Designing collection schemas, and writing efficient queries
• Frontend - Developing user-facing features and integration with REST APIs
• UI/UX - Being consistent with the design principles and reusing components wherever possible
• Communication - With other team members, product team, and support team

Requirements:

• Expertise with large scale Conversation Agents along with Response Evaluations
• Good hands-on experience with Node.Js and Vue.js (or React/Angular)
• Experience of working with production-grade applications which a decent usage
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Engineering or related field of study
• 3+ years of engineering experience
• Expertise with MongoDB
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills

EEO Statement:

At HighLevel, we value diversity. In fact, we understand it makes our organisation stronger. We are committed to inclusive hiring/promotion practices that evaluate skill sets, abilities, and qualifications without regard to any characteristic unrelated to performing the job at the highest level. Our objective is to foster an environment where really talented employees from all walks of life can be their true and whole selves, cherished and welcomed for their differences while providing excellent service to our clients and learning from one another along the way! Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• You will create REST/GraphQL based web services and APIs for consumption by mobile and web for distributed B2B platform 
• You will code, test and operate Nodejs based services
• You willI implement new features in a highly collaborative environment with product managers, UI/UX experts, and fellow engineers
• You will contribute to a future-ready, high quality, and performance code base
• You will share your technical solutions and product ideas with the team
• You will mentor other engineering team members
• You will contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure
• You will be part of a truly global team
• You will work in an exciting startup environment where you can be autonomous and try new things :)

• You have experience in backend development, using languages like Node.JS and Golang
• You have used TypeScript extensions
• You are familiar with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or CouchDB, Web services, SOA patterns
• You have good working knowledge of design patterns, building and deploying microservices on the cloud
• You have hands on experience with REST APIs or GraphQL
• You have experience with Test Driven Development and know when to apply it
• You have knowledge of web libraries and frameworks such as ReactJS/VueJS, AngularJS, and Clojure
• You have experience working on AWS or other cloud stacks and Docker 
• You have experience building / consuming OpenAPI and GraphQL specifications
• You have experience building microservices systems and testing them
• You have experience building systems with high data protection requirements, anonymous data and data encryption

• You have worked with Blockchain technology
• You have domain expertise working with decentralised identity solutions 
• You have experience of building systems that require cryptography

Here is the interview process for this role: 

• 30m interview with one of our Talent Team or Recruitment Partners
• 1h interview with our Engineers
• 1.5h pairing interview with one of our Engineers
• 3hs final interview meeting a variety of people including our CTO, Leads and other Engineers 

We can be flexible with the structure if someone's circumstances or timescales require it for good reason, just let us know! 

Please reach out if you have any specific requirements so we can be as accommodating as possible for you.

• Design and code feature in the front-end and back-end as per the specifications provided by the Product and Design teams.
• Ship features in fast-moving agile sprints.
• Work closely with Product Design and Product Management teams to brainstorm and chalk out details of features.
• Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion

Skills Must have:

• Good understanding of Javascript and Clean architecture.
• Good understanding of asynchronous programming, callback, and closures
• Experience in developing applications that use queues like SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc
• Experience with AWS services like S3, EC2, etc
• Strong experience with Javascript frontend framework/libraries like ReactJS
• Good knowledge of CSS and its preprocessors like SASS/LESS
• Good understanding of server-side templates.
• Experience with creating cross-browser compatible web apps
• Should be Strong in MySql / Postgres database
• Stronghold in Data structure and processing JSON

Good to have

• Basic knowledge of CI, CD
• Intermediate knowledge in any cloud services(AWS, GCP)
• Familiar with testing frameworks like Mocha, Cypress