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Job Title: Lead Software Engineer – Python

Experience: 5+ yrs

Job Location: Infopark, Kochi

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Environment: Join a forward-thinking company that encourages creativity and modern engineering practices.
• Career Growth: Ample opportunities for professional development, technical leadership, and career advancement.
• Collaborative Culture: Work in a cross-functional, team-oriented environment where your contributions directly shape infrastructure modernization.
• Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary package with performance-based incentives.

Key Responsibilities

API & Backend Development

• Design, build, scale, and maintain high-performance REST APIs and backend microservices using Python and FastAPI.
• Implement asynchronous workflows, robust data models, and scalable API integrations to interface with network infrastructure.
• Oversee code quality, establish engineering best practices, and conduct comprehensive code reviews to ensure reliability and maintainability.

Network Automation & Workflow Orchestration

• Design and build scalable, resilient network automation workflows using tools such as Netmiko, Nornir, and Ansible.
• Modernize manual network operations by automating provisioning, configuration management, and compliance checks.
• Integrate network automation tooling into continuous delivery pipelines to streamline deployment workflows.

Network Operations & Troubleshooting

• Apply deep networking fundamentals to diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex issues across enterprise and data center networks.
• Interface with and manage configurations for routing, switching, firewalls, and core network protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF).

DevOps, CI/CD & Testing

• Implement and manage robust CI/CD pipelines to modernize deployment lifecycles and operational workflows.
• Drive automated testing suites to validate both network orchestration scripts and API endpoints prior to production deployment.
• Containerize services using Docker to support seamless local and production environments.

Technical Leadership & Mentoring

• Mentor engineering team members on network programmability, API development, and automation standards.
• Translate operational and infrastructure requirements into production-ready software solutions.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience with Python.
• Strong expertise in building high-performance RESTful APIs using FastAPI and modern asynchronous programming.
• Extensive hands-on experience with network automation frameworks and libraries, specifically Netmiko, Nornir, and Ansible.
• Deep networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, routing & switching, BGP, OSPF, and firewalls.
• Proven track record of replacing manual infrastructure operations with automated workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong proficiency with Git version control, collaborative development, and automated testing frameworks.

Preferred Skills

• Hands-on experience containerizing services using Docker and orchestrating multi-service environments.
• Exposure to enterprise network management systems, ITSM tooling (e.g., ServiceNow), and change management lifecycles.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture or message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Experience with dependency management (Poetry) and pre-commit code formatting hooks.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and root-cause troubleshooting abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to bridge software engineering and network operations.
• Proactive, collaborative mindset with strong ownership over technical deliverables.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Java Developer with strong expertise in Apache Kafka and backend systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in Java (8/11+), Spring Boot, and building scalable, real-time data pipelines using Kafka.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain backend services using Java and Spring Boot
• Design and implement Kafka-based messaging and streaming solutions
• Optimize Kafka performance (topics, partitions, consumers)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable microservices
• Ensure code quality and maintain best practices in a distributed environment

Required Skills:

• 6+ years in Java development
• 3+ years of hands-on Kafka experience (producers, consumers, streams)
• Strong knowledge of Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
• Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and stream processing
• Experience with containerization (Docker), CI/CD, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Egen is a data engineering and cloud modernization firm helping industry-leading companies achieve digital breakthroughs and deliver for the future, today. We are catalysts for change who create digital breakthroughs at warp speed. Our team of cloud and data engineering experts are trusted by top clients in pursuit of the extraordinary. An Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company 7 times, and recently recognized on the Crain’s Chicago Business Fast 50 list, Egen has also been recognized as a great place to work 3 times.

You will join a team of insatiably curious data engineers, software architects, and product experts who never settle for "good enough". Our Java Platform team's tech stack is based on Java8 (Spring Boot) and RESTful web services. We typically build and deploy applications as cloud-native Kubernetes microservices and integrate with scalable technologies such as Kafka in Docker container environments. Our developers work in an agile process to efficiently deliver high value data driven applications and product packages.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology and Management, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Have experience working and strong understanding of object-oriented programing and cloud technologies
• End to end experience delivering production ready code with Java8, Spring Boot, Spring Data, and API libraries
• Strong experience with unit and integration testing of the Spring Boot APIs.
• Strong understanding and production experience of RESTful API's and microservice architecture.
• Strong understanding of SQL databases and NoSQL databases and experience with writing abstraction layers to communicate with the databases.

Nice to have's (but not required):

• Exposure to Kotlin or other JVM programming languages
• Strong understanding and production experience working with Docker container environments
• Strong understanding and production experience working with Kafka
• Cloud Environments: AWS, GCP or Azure