Senior Backend Engineer – Cloud Native/ Kafka

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, cloud\'native backend services
  
• Build and support event\'driven and asynchronous systems using streaming and messaging platforms(Kafka)
  
• Engineer low\'latency, high\'throughput systems with strong resiliency and fault tolerance
  
• Optimize performance for compute\' and data\'intensive workloads
  
• Collaborate with platform, DevOps, and Front office teams to deliver end\'to\'end solutions
  
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and production readiness assessments
  
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive performance, reliability, and scalability improvements
  
• Contribute to engineering standards, best practices, and mentoring
  

Required Skills & Experience

• 610%2B years of experience in backend software engineering
  
• Strong proficiency in Java, Python, or similar backend languages
  
• Solid experience building microservices and REST / async APIs
  
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and scalability patterns
  
• Hands\'on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  
• Experience with event streaming / messaging systems (Kafka or equivalent)
  
• Strong problem\'solving skills and ability to work in complex, evolving systems
  

Good to Have

• High\'Performance Computing (HPC) experience, including performance tuning, parallelism, or compute\'intensive workloads
  
• Experience using Redis for caching, pub/sub, or distributed state management
  
• Strong working knowledge of Apache Kafka, including producers/consumers, schemas, and stream processing
  
• Experience with Symphony\'based integrations or platforms (messaging, workflows, or automation)
  
• Basic to intermediate exposure to C%2B%2B, or comfort understanding and modifying C%2B%2B code
  
• Experience with low\'latency / real\'time systems
  
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD pipelines