Kafka Integration Engineer

About the role

A hands-on Kafka Integration Engineer is sought to build and manage real-time data integrations between customer Kafka streams and internal APIs. The role works closely with customer engineering teams and internal DevOps to deliver reliable, scalable data pipelines.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Kafka consumers for real-time event ingestion and processing.
• Implement message parsing and transformation (JSON, Avro, Protobuf).
• Build and configure customer-specific integrations.
• Manage credentials and configurations using AWS Secrets Manager.
• Deploy and monitor services in Kubernetes using Helm.
• Collaborate with DevOps on troubleshooting, performance and reliability.

Required profile

• Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (KafkaJS or similar).
• Experience with REST/HTTP APIs and service-to-service integrations.
• Good knowledge of SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with Avro, Protobuf and message parsing.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Helm and AWS, particularly Secrets Manager.
• Practical experience using AI coding assistants (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, etc.).
• Ability to write robust, testable, maintainable code for high-throughput systems, with strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent spoken and written English (C1+ / fluent) and confident communication with international customers by call, Slack and email.