Foundation Finance Company Careers · 8 hours ago

Senior Kafka Backend Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$100K/yr - $125K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Lead design and development of front-end web architectures driven by middleware to retrieve information from back-end sources.

Lead development of software in our technology stack, which is constantly evolving but currently includes JavaScript, GraphQL, Jest, Kafka, MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js), NestJS, Redis, SQL, and TypeScript.

Help grow the development practice via coding, code reviewing, acting as a technical bridge on the team, as well as being able to dig into some of the more complex areas of the system when knowledge is lacking in house.

Lead team in test-driven development and proper unit testing.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

Maintain knowledge of security best practices in web development to safeguard customer and company data.

Scour and evaluate new technologies and contribute to the overall product roadmaps of both internal and external 3rd party systems.

Design performance optimized and scalable web applications.

Utilize agile methodologies and scrum planning tools like Jira to help the development team meet its sprint goal.

Other duties as assigned by management.

Qualification

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Apache KafkaJavaScriptMERN StackTypeScriptSQLRedisGraphQLNestJSTest-driven developmentAgile methodologiesTechnical certifications