Lead Kafka Integration Developer

Title: Lead Kafka Integration Developer
Location: Dallas, TX.
Duration: 6+ months (extendable for long term)

Note:

Locals will be preferred but people living close to TX and willing to relocate 100% will do as well.
Extensive Kafka Integration experience is required.

Requirements :

8+ years of experience in building large scale enterprise integration implementation and web services.
Good hands on experience in building applications using event driven framework in Kafka.
Familiarity with Microservices API design best practices including SSO, Testing, Documentation, Monitoring, and developer tooling.
Using and developing REST services using messaging integration via Kafka Development experience with databases, both RDBMS and NoSQL (e.g. Hadoop, MongoDB, etc.)
Development experience with Java (and C/C++ is nice-to-have) Exposure to middleware integration platforms (MuleSoft, Talend, Informatica, etc.)
Using and developing event driven frameworks and REST services using databases, both RDBMS and NoSQL (e.g. Hadoop, MongoDB, etc.) Development experience with Java (and C/C++ is nice-to-have.
Hands-on experience in Java, Rest API, React, Kafka, Elasticsearch, SQL (MySQL/Postgres), AWS.
Hands customer facing experience supporting external developers in complex partner integration projects.
Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment using build systems such Jenkins.
Demonstrated ability to be proactive, self-driven, and make practical trade-offs based on business needs, entrepreneurial spirit.
Experience in building Billing or Payments processing solutions for domestic and international payments is a plus.
Developing web tools, docs, sdks and cloud services to support the integration of billing and other platform services is a plus.