Python Developer

Required Qualifications

Kafka & Streaming Experience

• 6-10+ years of experience in software or data engineering.

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and/or Confluent Platform.

• Strong knowledge of:

o Kafka internals (brokers, partitions, offsets, consumer groups)

o Schema Registry and schema evolution

o Kafka Connect architectures and connectors

Python Development

• Strong proficiency in Python for backend and streaming development.

• Experience building production-grade services using Python frameworks and libraries.

• Familiarity with async processing, multithreading, or stream processing patterns is a plus.

Cloud & DevOps

• Experience deploying Kafka and applications in cloud or hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps).

• Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep).

• Containerization experience (Docker, Kubernetes) preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ksqlDB, Kafka Streams, or stream processing frameworks (Flink, Spark Streaming).

• Exposure to event sourcing or CQRS patterns.

• Integration of Kafka with data lakes, warehouses, and analytics platforms.

• Confluent or cloud platform certifications.

• Experience supporting high-throughput, low-latency systems.

Soft Skills & Leadership

• Strong communication skills across engineering and stakeholder teams.

• Ability to translate business use cases into event-driven technical solutions.

• Comfortable acting as both hands-on developer and technical lead.

• Experience influencing architecture and standards across teams.