We are looking for a Senior Java Software Engineer with strong production experience building and operating high-throughput, distributed systems.
This role is specifically focused on engineers with deep Apache Kafka and Kubernetes experience. Experience limited to using Kafka as a publisher/consumer is not sufficient for this position.
Core Requirements
1. Apache Kafka — Deep Production Expertise
You must have hands-on experience managing and operating Kafka in production, not just developing Kafka producers and consumers.
You should have a strong understanding and practical experience with:
Kafka clusters and brokers
Topic creation, configuration, and lifecycle management
Partitions, partitioning strategies, and partition rebalancing
Consumer groups, consumer rebalancing, and offset management
Replication, leaders/followers, and fault tolerance
Handling high-throughput workloads
Kafka performance tuning and capacity considerations
Troubleshooting production Kafka issues
Consumer lag, throughput, and availability monitoring
Designing Kafka-based event-driven architectures




Understanding failure scenarios and recovery strategies
Key: Candidates whose Kafka experience is primarily limited to implementing producers/consumers or consuming messages from existing topics will not be a fit.
2. Kubernetes — Strong Production Experience
You must have hands-on experience running applications in production Kubernetes environments.
Experience should include:
Deploying and managing applications on Kubernetes
Deployments, Pods, Services, ConfigMaps and Secrets
Resource requests/limits and scaling
Health checks and application availability
Troubleshooting failed deployments and unhealthy Pods
Understanding Kubernetes networking and service discovery
Production troubleshooting and incident handling
Experience working with Kubernetes clusters and their operational challenges
Java & Spring Boot
5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
Strong production exp

📌 Senior Java Software Engineer — Remote Contract (India)
🏢 MatteCurve Technologies
📍 India