Senior Software Engineer (Kafka)

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Job Title

Senior Software Engineer (Kafka)

The Senior Software Engineer will, in collaboration with a multidisciplinary delivery team, be responsible for the development of high-quality streaming solutions to support the Fiserv business processes and data analytics strategy.

What does a great Senior Software Engineer do?

• Deliver resilient and high-volume technology solutions built in Java & Spring framework.
• Build Industry standard and resilient Data streaming solution using technologies like Kafka and Snowflake.
• Help in designing data pipelines which are scalable, both with new business requirements as well as data volume requirements in future.
• Understands and develop a fault tolerant application with error handling mechanisms for minimum down time in production.
• Knowledge of coding techniques to contribute to the reliability, maintainability, readability, simplicity, performance, security(understanding of OWASP) and testability of software.
• Work within various database technologies including both relational and non-relational implementations (SQL and NoSQL)
• Works with DevOps specialists to design monitoring dashboards and alerts for an effective monitoring and alerting setup for the team.

What you will need to have:

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or other equivalent technical discipline.
• Minimum 5-6 years’ experience in designing, developing and implementing software applications in Agile environment.
• Recent experience working with teams delivering with Java/Spring Frameworks, Spring Boot.
• Great knowledge of messaging Architectures including Kafka, MQ and ESB technologies.
• 4+ years hands-on software development experience designing, writing, debugging, and testing object-oriented code.
• A high level of proficiency working with modern CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience with API integrations & performance tuning.

What would be nice to have:

• Financial/banking sector experience, especially knowledge of payments industry ideal (ISO8583, POS etc.) is an advantage.
• Cloud Migration (Azure/PCF/Openshift/AWS)
• Experience with Splunk
• Experience with Grafana, Dynatrace etc.
• Recent experience in developing 12 Factor cloud native services
• A solid understanding of complex IT environments, including networking, databases, security, and performance.
• Networking: Understanding network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).

Thank you for considering employment with Fiserv. Please:

• Apply using your legal name
• Complete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable, both are preferable).

What you should know about us:

Fiserv is a global leader in payments and financial technology with more than 40,000 associates proudly serving clients in more than 100 countries. As one of Fortune® magazine's "World's Most Admired Companies™" 9 of the last 10 years, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and a top scorer on Bloomberg’s Gender-Equality Index, we are committed to innovation and excellence. 

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