Kafka Test Engineer
About the Role
About Us:
Our passion at EXL is enabling organizations to achieve a measurable, competitive advantage through Data Management. We partner with our clients to design and implement scalable, accessible, and innovative solutions. Our goal is to make sense of data to drive client’s business forward through data strategy, data governance and building cloud data platforms. EXL is a leading data analytics and digital operations and solutions company that partners with clients to improve business outcomes and unlock growth. By bringing together deep domain expertise with robust data, powerful analytics, cloud, artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning (“ML”), we create agile, scalable solutions and execute complex operations for the world’s leading corporations in industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, media, and retail, among others. Focused on driving faster decision-making and transforming operating models, EXL was founded on the core values of innovation, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect. Headquartered in New York, our team is over 44,500+ strong, with more than 50 offices spanning six continents.
Kafka Engineer
Full Time on-site in Dallas, TX, Cleveland, OH or Pittsburgh, PA
Role and Responsibilities:
- Strong hands-on 8+ years of experience as Java Developer with strong Kafka expertise to design, develop, and support high-performance, event driven applications
- Design, develop, and maintain Java based enterprise applications using Spring Boot and microservices architecture.
- Build and manage event driven systems using Apache Kafka, including producers, consumers, topics, partitions, and schemas
- Collaborate with architects, business analysts, and DevOps teams to deliver scalable and resilient solutions.
- Implement RESTful APIs and integrate with downstream and upstream systems.
- Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and performance tuning of Kafka and Java applications.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
- Ability to build abstract, modularized reusable code components.
- Hands-on experience in generating/parsing XML, JSON documents
- Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and production support activities.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues with a focus on root cause analysis.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git, Maven/Gradle
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Excellent problem solving and communication skills
Company Overview and Culture
EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) is a global analytics and digital solutions company that partners with clients to improve business outcomes and unlock growth. Bringing together deep domain expertise with robust data, powerful analytics, cloud, and AI, we create agile, scalable solutions and execute complex operations for the world’s leading corporations in industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, media, and retail, among others. Focused on creating value from data for driving faster decision-making and transforming operating models, EXL was founded on the core values of innovation, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect. Headquartered in New York, our team is over 50,000 strong, with more than 50 offices spanning six continents. For information, visit
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