Principal Kafka Platform Engineer

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior and Lead Java Backend Engineer with strong experience in Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams, along with Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices. The candidate will build and support scalable, event-driven backend applications and work with containerization and cloud technologies.

Required Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices architecture

Apache Kafka — topics, partitions, producers, consumers, and message-processing guarantees

Kafka Streams — stream processing, joins, windowing, and stateful aggregations

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Key Responsibilities

Develop and maintain backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices.

Build and support event-driven applications using Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams.

Design and maintain Kafka topics, partitions, producers, and consumers based on application needs.

Implement stream-processing logic, including joins, windowing, and aggregations.

Troubleshoot performance, reliability, and message-processing issues in distributed applications.

Package and deploy applications using Docker and Kubernetes, and support deployments on AWS.

Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable backend solutions.

This job is Remote India only

We're seeking an experienced Engineer to join our engineering team, handling massive-scale data processing and analytics infrastructure that supports over 1B daily events, 3M+ DAU, and 50k+ hours of content. The ideal candidate will bridge the gap between raw data collection and actionable insights, while supporting our ML initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and scale the Infrastructure Pod, setting technical direction for data, platform, and DevOps initiatives.
• Architect and evolve our cloud infrastructure to support 1B+ daily events — ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering and ML pods to build high-performance pipelines and real-time analytics systems.
• Define and implement SLOs, observability standards, and best practices for uptime, latency, and data reliability.
• Mentor and grow engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Partner with leadership on long-term architecture and scaling strategy — from infrastructure cost optimization to multi-region availability.
• Lead initiatives on infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, and platform abstractions to improve developer velocity.
• Own security, compliance, and governance across infrastructure and data systems.

Who You Are

• Previously a Tech Co-founder / Founding Engineer / First Infra Hire who scaled a product from early MVP to significant user or data scale.
• 5–12 years of total experience, with at least 2+ years in leadership or team-building roles.
• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), 
• Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK).
• Hands-on expertise in data-intensive systems, streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spark Streaming), and distributed architecture design.
• Proven experience building scalable CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK), and infrastructure for data and ML workloads.
• Comfortable being hands-on when needed — reviewing design docs, debugging issues, or optimizing infrastructure.
• Strong system design and problem-solving skills; understands trade-offs between speed, cost, and scalability.
• Passionate about building teams, not just systems — can recruit, mentor, and inspire engineers.

Preferred Skills

• Experience managing infra-heavy or data-focused teams.
• Familiarity with real-time streaming architectures.
• Exposure to ML infrastructure, data governance, or feature stores.
• Prior experience in the OTT / streaming / consumer platform domain is a plus.
• Contributions to open-source infra/data tools or strong engineering community presence.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to build and scale infrastructure from the ground up, with full ownership and autonomy.
• High-impact leadership role shaping our data and platform backbone.
• Competitive compensation + ESOPs.
• Continuous learning budget and certification support.
• A team that values velocity, clarity, and craftsmanship.

Success Metrics

• Reduction in infra cost per active user and event processed.
• Increase in developer velocity (faster pipeline deployments, reduced MTTR).
• High system availability and data reliability SLAs met.
• Successful rollout of infra automation and observability frameworks.
• Team growth, retention, and technical quality.

We’re seeking a highly skilled, execution-focused Senior Backend Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience to join our team. This role demands hands-on expertise in building and scaling distributed systems, strong proficiency in Java, and deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure. You will be expected to design robust backend services, optimize performance across storage and caching layers, and enable seamless integrations using modern messaging and CI/CD pipelines.

You’ll be working in a high-scale, high-impact environment where reliability, speed, and efficiency are paramount. If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and have a passion for distributed systems, this is the right role for you.

Responsibilities—

• Design, develop, and maintain distributed backend systems at scale.
• Write high-performance, production-grade code in Java.
• Architect and optimize storage systems, ensuring efficient query performance and scalable data models.
• Implement caching strategies to reduce latency and improve system throughput.
• Build and manage services leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Develop resilient messaging pipelines using Kafka (or equivalent) for real-time data processing.
• Define and streamline CI/CD pipelines, ensuring rapid and reliable deployment cycles.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and apply proactive fixes.
• Drive best practices in software engineering, testing, and code reviews. 

Requirements—

• 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, with deep hands-on coding experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java and familiarity with modern frameworks.
• Proven track record in building scalable distributed systems.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS).
• Solid understanding of messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Strong grasp of query performance optimization and storage system design.
• Experience with caching solutions (Redis, Memcached, etc.).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive mindset.

Benefits—

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
• Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.

About us—

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.

Job Description: Java Developer

Experience: 5+ Years

Location: Bangalore

Work Mode: Hybrid

Mandatory Skills:

• Strong experience in Java, Spring Boot & Microservices
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka
• Experience working with Git, REST APIs & SQL
• Good understanding of Generative AI / GitHub Copilot
• Strong knowledge of software development, debugging and performance optimization
• Good communication and problem-solving skills

Role & Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain scalable Java-based applications.
• Develop and integrate Kafka-based event-driven services.
• Utilize Copilot/AI-assisted development tools to improve development productivity.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, testing and production support.

Java Developer Hiring Post

🚨 Hiring: Java Developer | Kafka | Copilot

🔹 Experience: 5+ Years

🔹 Skills: Java, Kafka, GitHub Copilot

🔹 Location: Hyderabad / Bangalore

🔹 Work Mode: Hybrid

🔹 Interview: F2F / Virtual

🔹 Notice Period: Immediate Joiners Preferred

📩 Interested candidates can share their updated resume.

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Looking for strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Microservices, System Design, Kafka, Redis, Cloud, Docker & Kubernetes.

FinTech / Banking experience will be an added advantage.

We are looking for a Backend Engineer (SDE 2) to build scalable backend systems for EV charging infrastructure and energy management platforms. The role focuses on developing high-performance APIs, event-driven systems, and data pipelines that process EV telemetry, charging sessions, and energy analytics.

What You'll Own

- Design and develop scalable backend services and RESTful/WebSocket APIs.

- Build microservices using Go.

- Design and optimize databases for high-volume telemetry and charging-session data.

- Build event-driven systems and data pipelines using Kafka or similar messaging systems.

- Work on real-time and batch processing workflows for telemetry, energy metrics, and analytics.

- Improve application reliability, performance, monitoring, and observability.

- Deploy and operate services using Docker and Kubernetes.

- Participate in system design, architecture discussions, code reviews, testing, and technical documentation.

- Mentor and support junior engineers when required.

Required Qualifications

- 3 - 5+ years of backend development experience building scalable APIs and microservices.

- Strong proficiency in Golang.

- Strong understanding of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or other relational/NoSQL databases.

- Experience with query optimization, indexing, schema design, partitioning, or replication.

- Experience building event-driven or distributed systems using Kafka or similar messaging systems.

- Familiarity with GCP or other cloud platforms.

- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Kibana, or ELK.

- Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and performance optimization.

- Experience writing clean, maintainable, testable code with unit and integration tests.

Nice to Have

- Experience working with EV charging, energy management, mobility, or IoT platforms.

- Experience processing high-volume telemetry or time-series data.

- Experience with real-time data processing and analytics pipelines.

- Experience with WebSockets or other real-time communication protocols.

- Experience with CI/CD and production infrastructure.

- Experience working with distributed systems at scale.

Why Join Us

- Build backend infrastructure powering EV charging and energy platforms.

- Work on distributed systems, real-time data, and high-volume telemetry.

- Solve challenging problems around scalability, reliability, and performance.

- Take meaningful ownership of production systems and technical decisions.

Job Description:

We are looking for experienced Java professionals with strong backend development experience to join our technology team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and related backend technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Java and Spring Boot.
• Develop and integrate RESTful APIs and Microservices.
• Work with Kafka for event-driven architecture and messaging.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application issues.
• Collaborate with frontend, QA, DevOps, and other technical teams.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and technical solutioning.
• Ensure application performance, scalability, and reliability.

Primary Skills:

• Core Java
• Spring Boot
• Microservices
• REST API
• Kafka
• SQL / Database

Good to Have:

• React.js
• Cloud technologies
• Docker / Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• Agile/Scrum experience

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Job Description – Java Backend Developer

Experience: 5+ Years

Location: Bangalore

Notice Period: Immediate to 15 Days

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Java Backend Developer with strong hands-on expertise in Java and Apache Kafka. The ideal candidate should have experience in developing scalable backend applications, building event-driven systems, and working with distributed architectures.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Java.
• Develop and implement event-driven applications using Apache Kafka.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Work with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Develop efficient, reusable, and maintainable code.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application issues.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions.

Mandatory Skills

• 5+ years of experience in Java Backend Development.
• Strong hands-on experience in Java.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka.
• Good understanding of REST API development.
• Knowledge of microservices and distributed systems.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

Job Title: Java Developer with Kafka

Location: Hyderabad

Experience: 4–9 Years

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Java Developer with strong expertise in Apache Kafka to design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance enterprise applications. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience building microservices, implementing event-driven architectures, and working with distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Java-based applications using Spring Boot.
• Build and manage event-driven applications using Apache Kafka.
• Develop RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Integrate applications with databases and third-party systems.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Troubleshoot production issues and provide timely resolutions.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical design discussions.

Required Skills

• 5–8 years of experience in Java application development.
• Strong proficiency in Java 8/11/17 and Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (producers, consumers, topics, partitions, consumer groups).
• Experience developing REST APIs and Microservices.
• Strong understanding of multithreading, collections, and JVM concepts.
• Experience with SQL databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MySQL).
• Familiarity with Git, Maven/Gradle, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is an advantage.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is a plus.
• Good analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with event-driven architecture and distributed systems.
• Exposure to monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Splunk.
• Knowledge of messaging systems and integration patterns.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.