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In this role, you will develop Kafka connectors, manage offset and error handling, advance test strategies, and actively shape architecture and releases.
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Your role in the team
- Architecture and further development: Together with our Lead Developer and Product Owner, you shape the technical direction of the connectors. You design new features, refactor shared components across all connectors, and support releases.
- Kafka Connect expertise: You are responsible for topics such as offset management, error handling, task lifecycle, and compatibility with new Kafka versions and KIPs.
- Observability: You drive metrics and logging concepts forward, including solutions for monitoring our customers.
- Quality: You further develop our testing strategy, from ScalaTest and ScalaCheck to Testcontainers-based regression suites, and improve the CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, SonarQube).
- Agile collaboration: You break down requirements into actionable Jira tickets together with the Product Owner and actively shape our ways of working in planning and code reviews.
- Mentoring: You support junior colleagues, conduct code reviews, and share knowledge of SAP interfaces and Kafka Connect with the team.
- Customer focus: You support complex troubleshooting and escalations, advise customers on operations and configuration, and contribute to technical documentation and how-to guides.
Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- You are confident working with distributed systems, concurrency, and fault tolerance.
- You enjoy taking responsibility, explaining your decisions clearly, and helping others grow.
- You have very good German and English skills. We write code and documentation in English, and often speak German with customers.
Experience
- You have several years of experience in backend development with Scala or Java and an interest in functional programming.
- You have in-depth experience with Apache Kafka, ideally with Kafka Connect or developing custom plugins or streaming components.
- You have experience with automated testing at all levels, as well as with Docker and CI/CD.
- You have relevant experience with agile software development methodologies (e.g., Scrum or Kanban) and tools such as Jira.
- A plus, but not required: experience with SAP integration technologies such as SAP JCo, RFC/BAPI, IDocs, or OData.
- Experience with BI and data warehouse environments, ideally in an SAP context.
- Experience with the Confluent Platform, JMX, Prometheus, or Grafana.
- Experience in product development, licensing, and release management for commercial software.
What we offer
- A product of your own with room to shape it: You work on software that customers use in production and have a direct influence on its architecture and roadmap.
- Individual work schedule arrangements with flexible working hours and remote work.
- Development of your skills through conferences, certifications, and continuing education.
- 30 days of vacation, plus you have December 24 and 31 off.
- Flat hierarchies and an open feedback culture: short lines of communication, transparent decisions, and an open ear for your ideas and concerns.
- Family-friendly environment: After parental leave, you can return to work as needed and arrange your working hours flexibly.
- Interdisciplinary team: Development, Consulting, and Sales work closely together.
- Get off to a great start: centrally located office in downtown Stuttgart, subsidized Deutschlandticket, and an onboarding coach for your first few weeks.
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INIT ist weltweit führender Anbieter von IT-Lösungen für Bus und Bahn. INIT unterstützt mehr als 700 Verkehrsunternehmen dabei, den ÖPNV attraktiver und effizienter zu gestalten.
- 50-249 Employees
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- Onsite, Hybrid, Full Remote
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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