Job Description:
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate proactively with internal support teams, vendors, and customers for enhancements and break/fix support.
• Complete key project work and support activities, prioritizing features and requirements based on business value and impact.
• Establish and follow best practices in the implementation and execution of support processes.
• Design and develop modern, API-based, and event-driven integrations between enterprise applications, leveraging RESTful principles and Confluent Kafka to build robust, scalable solutions that support both synchronous and asynchronous data flows.
• Build and support Kafka-based integrations in Python, including:
• Developing and maintaining producer and consumer clients (Python) for event publishing and stream consumption.
• Designing event payloads and enforcing contracts using schemas (e.g., Avro/JSON Schema) and Confluent Schema Registry.
• Working with Kafka topics (naming conventions, partitions, retention, compaction where applicable) in partnership with platform operations.




• Implementing reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, dead letter/error topics, replay/backfill strategies). Actively participate in code reviews and design discussions.
• Stay informed about recent applications, features, and APIs to leverage them to solve business problems efficiently.

Experience:
• 6–8+ years of software engineering experience with proficiency in at least two programming languages; strong Python proficiency required (Java or C# a plus).
• Hands-on experience developing event-driven integrations using Kafka, with preference for Confluent Kafka.
• Experience building/maintaining Kafka producer/consumer applications, including message serialization and schema evolution practices.
• Extensive experience with integration technologies, including APIs, microservices, ETL, message brokers, and event-driven architecture, as well as standard formats and protocols (e.g., Avro, SOAP, REST, JSON, XML) to suppo

📌 Senior Platform Engineer (India)
🏢 System Soft Technologies
📍 India