Kafka Architect

Are you a Kafka Architect with a strong Java and FinTech background? Have you worked at a large financial institution and felt like your deep technical expertise and hands-on approach were underappreciated?

At Intellibus, we engineer cutting-edge platforms that power the financial trading industry.

Our Platform Engineering Team is solving the Multiplicity Problem and leading major Kafka-based transformations for some of the biggest names in FinTech. Join us to build scalable, high-throughput data streaming solutions that impact billions of transactions worldwide.

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We are looking for Engineers who can

• Design, build, and optimize Kafka infrastructure to handle millions of messages per second
• Architect event-driven microservices leveraging Kafka Streams and kSQL
• Develop Java-based streaming applications using Kafka, Spring Boot, and Flink
• Implement multi-region Kafka deployments on AWS with automated failover
• Tune Kafka producers, consumers, and brokers for low-latency, high-throughput workloads
• Design schema evolution strategies using Apache Avro and Schema Registry
• Implement Kafka security best practices (SSL, SASL, ACLs, RBAC)
• Set up Kafka Connect with connectors for databases, object storage, and messaging queues
• Optimize Zookeeper and Kafka cluster configurations for resilience and scalability
• Use Terraform and Kubernetes to automate Kafka cluster deployments
• Debug Kafka performance issues and perform capacity planning
• Ensure 99.99% uptime for mission-critical financial systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years of Java development experience
• 7+ years of Kafka experience in a production environment
• Proven experience in high-performance, low-latency systems
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform
• Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux environments
• Financial Services / FinTech experience preferred
• Excellent communication and leadership skills

We work closely with

• Kafka Ecosystem: Kafka, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, kSQL
• Java 11+
• Spring Boot Microservices
• AWS Cloud Services (EC2, S3, IAM, MSK, Lambda)
• Relational & NoSQL Databases (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis)
• Terraform & Kubernetes (EKS)
• Linux / Unix

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Our Process

• Schedule a 15 min Video Call with someone from our Team
• 4 Proctored GQ Tests (< 2 hours)
• 30-45 min Final Video Interview
• Receive Job Offer

If you are interested in reaching out to us, please apply and our team will contact you within the hour.