Java Kafka Developer

As a highly skilled Java Developer with expertise in Spring Boot, Confluent Kafka, and distributed systems, your main responsibility will be designing, developing, and optimizing event-driven applications using Confluent Kafka while leveraging Spring Boot/Spring Cloud for microservices-based architectures. Your key responsibilities will include: - Developing, deploying, and maintaining scalable and high-performance applications using Java (Core Java, Collections, Multithreading, Executor Services, CompletableFuture, etc.). - Working extensively with Confluent Kafka, including producer-consumer frameworks, offset management, and optimization of consumer instances based on message volume. - Ensuring efficient message serialization and deserialization using JSON, Avro, and Protobuf with Kafka Schema Registry. - Designing and implementing event-driven architectures with real-time processing capabilities. - Optimizing Kafka consumers for high-throughput and low-latency scenarios. - Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of services. - Troubleshooting and resolving performance bottlenecks and scalability issues in distributed environments. - Having familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms is a plus. - Possessing experience with monitoring and logging tool - Splunk is a plus. Qualifications required for this role include: - 5+ years of experience in Java development. - Strong expertise in Spring Boot, Confluent Kafka, and distributed systems. - Proficiency in designing and optimizing event-driven applications. - Experience with microservices-based architectures using Spring Boot/Spring Cloud. - Knowledge of JSON, Avro, and Protobuf for message serialization and deserialization. - Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. - Experience with Splunk for monitoring and logging is a plus.,