Kafka Streams Senior Engineer/Architect (EMEA)

Do you want to build a high-quality data platform on top of Kafka that will innovate financial markets? Does event-driven architecture spark your interest? Do you want to work for a company that uses modern techniques to achieve the best results for its clients while empowering and supporting you to realize your full potential?

We are an experienced team of Spring committers, Kafka contributors, ex-Pivotal, Google, Apple engineers. If you want to know more, keep reading or reach out for a chat.

We are a VC-backed fintech with a live product in the regulatory trade reporting space and a growing list of institutional clients (B2B). Our product journey has started in the US with a roadmap into Canada, UK, EU, Australia, and Singapore over the next twelve months. We are a start-up on a fast paced journey to scale-up.

KOR is built on leading edge cloud technology by industry domain experts and world class in-house engineering. We are on a mission to innovate B2B trade servicing starting with regulatory reporting in time for a global wave of mandated changes hitting all segments of market participants across OTC derivatives transactions. We're solving the most challenging problems around by bringing fresh designs and solutions to data utility, quality, and processing inefficiencies while unlocking insane value for clients.

Teamwork and laser focus are central to everything we do at KOR. With the right support, we believe small independent teams with deep expertises achieve better results and encourage skilled people to take responsibility and grow their careers. We live by the mantra of work humble, work smart, and work together.

You have a passion for high-quality, reliable, and maintainable code. You have experience with running payloads on top of Kafka and Kafka Streams in production. You get excited by the idea of contributing directly to Kafka and Kafka Streams. You're comfortable working with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions to deliver valuable working software to clients and their users quickly. You're agile and retrospective and not afraid to identify what we're doing wrong so we can fix it and what we're doing right to improve on it. Above all, you judge your success by the success of your team and the happiness of our customers.

As a Kafka Streams Senior Engineer/Architect at KOR, you get to own and design parts of the KOR Platform. We value your ideas, and you'll play a key role in developing products that our customers will love using. Of course, we don't expect you to know it all, but your natural desire to learn will help you overcome new challenges and prove yourself as a valuable member of the KOR team.

• Designing and implementing the streaming data platform engine and SDK.

• Assisting in the design and implementation of our Kafka application architecture.

• Implementing new features for our range of web and streaming applications and data reporting capabilities.

• Be an active voice in the platform's build-out in regards to the technical choices and implementations.

• Working closely with the broader team to embrace new challenges and adapt requirements as we continue to grow and adjust priorities.

• Paired programming with a growing team of Back-end, Data, and Front-end Engineers.