Senior Software Engineer - Kafka

About the Role
The transportation industry has no shortage of complex problems requiring creative solutions to scale efficiently. In this role, you will collaborate with a small team to develop Kafka related tooling and shared libraries to support the Engineering organization in developing more scalable solutions.
Responsibilities

• Prototype and support Kafka-centric solutions
• Build and maintain standards around interacting with kafka and associated tools (connect, ksql, flink)
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Engage in the full development life-cycle including architectural design and testing
• Be a force-multiplier on the velocity and quality of your team
• Stay current on software engineering trends & tools, and be practical but open-minded in applying them
• Maintain a high bar for quality and performance of your product with vigorous attention to detail and automated testing
• Continuously improve how we design, build, and ship software as a highly functional team
• Help identify pain points across the Engineering organization and offer solutions.

Requirements

• 6+ years of practical experience in software development, including designing, building, deploying, and maintaining web applications
• 2+ years of experience developing with Kafka or a comparable eventing architecture
• Experience working with RESTful APIs and SaaS application development
• Experience with GraphQL a plus
• Ability to understand complicated problems and craft into simple solutions that can be maintained by the rest of the team
• Ability to train and mentor junior engineers
• Experience with SQL and RDBMS
• Experience NoSQL technologies a plus
• Experience in cloud infrastructure preferred (AWS, Azure, GCP, Heroku etc)
• Strong communication skills
• Compassion and empathy