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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing event-driven architectures, particularly with Kafka, while delivering maintainable code and automated testing practices. Proven ability to mentor peers and lead complex technical projects in a collaborative environment.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Event-Driven ArchitectureKafka ExperienceDomain-Driven DesignProduction Services OwnershipCI/CD Pipelines
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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringEvent-Streaming IntegrationsAutomated TestingInfrastructure-As-CodeDistributed ApplicationsComplex Defect DiagnosisService Boundary DesignDigital Transactional FlowsAsynchronous ProcessingClean Architecture Patterns
Soft Skills
MentoringTechnical CommunicationCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
KafkaConfluentAPIsTelemetryAutomated Tests
Industry Keywords
Asset-Finance JourneysProduction-Grade SoftwareEvent-Based IntegrationsNon-Functional RequirementsTechnical Trade-Offs
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesKafka
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design, implement, test, deploy, and operate production-grade software across asset-finance journeys
- Build services covering quote, application, onboarding, credit decisioning, document handling, contracting, and automated booking
- Translate business processes into services, events, commands, and data contracts
- Apply choreography, orchestration, asynchronous processing, eventual consistency, and clear domain boundaries
- Develop Kafka or equivalent event-streaming integrations with reliability, observability, and failure-recovery controls
- Build secure APIs, adapters, and event-based integrations with enterprise systems and third-party providers
- Deliver maintainable code, automated tests, contract tests, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, telemetry, and operational controls
- Diagnose complex defects and production issues across distributed services
- Contribute to service boundaries, solution options, non-functional requirements, and architecture decisions
- Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, design reviews, and knowledge sharing
- Improve engineering practices and promote small, independently deployable changes
- Collaborate with product, architecture, security, risk, platform, and engineering colleagues
Requirements
What you’ll need- Typically 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
- Experience owning complex production services or distributed applications
- Experience designing and implementing multi-step digital or transactional flows
- Strong practical knowledge of event-driven architecture
- Hands-on experience with Kafka, Confluent, or comparable platforms
- Experience with topics, partitions, consumer groups, retention, schema management, compatibility, idempotency, retries, dead-letter queues, ordering, replay, and the outbox pattern
- Practical experience applying domain-driven design, bounded contexts, aggregates, anti-corruption layers, and independently deployable service boundaries
- Ability to lead complex technical work and mentor peers without formal authority
- Ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Commitment to modern software paradigms, clean architecture patterns, and emerging technologies
Benefits
Comp & perks- Flexible working, including hybrid
- Two working days for volunteering
- Health, wellness, and financial programs
- Industry leading holiday package
- Training, mentorship, tuition reimbursement, and career development programs
- Competitive pay
- Healthcare benefits
- 401k matching
- Vacation
- Sick leave
- Parental leave
- Possible discretionary bonuses
- Wellbeing support and global wellbeing programs
