Staff SW Engineer Scala/Java Developer Kafka Data Engineerng Germn MNC

Valuable Consulting And Technologies; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Valuable Consulting And Technologies in Bengaluru seeks an experienced software engineer to design and deliver scalable backend and data-intensive applications. You will own architecting microservices, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure, leveraging Kafka and streaming technologies.

The role requires 8+ years in backend/platform/data, with strong Scala/Java skills and hands-on Spark/Databricks experience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend/platform/data domains.
• Strong programming skills in Scala or Java (Scala preferred).
• Experience building distributed microservices and event-driven systems.
• Hands-on Kafka experience at scale.
• APIs design (REST and/or event-driven).
• Relational DB knowledge (PostgreSQL) and data modeling.
• Distributed data pipelines with Spark/Databricks.
• Ability to lead technical design and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and own end-to-end architectures across microservices and data platforms.
• Build high-quality backend services and APIs that are reliable and scalable.
• Operate cloud-native infrastructure on Kubernetes; apply platform engineering practices.
• Build data pipelines using Spark/Databricks as needed.
• Drive event-driven architecture with Kafka and streaming tech.
• Write clean, testable code in Scala (and Python as needed).
• Lead architecture reviews and draft design documents for major decisions.
• Define engineering standards across testing, observability, CI/CD, and reliability.
• Coach engineers and foster cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Scala

Java

Distributed systems

Kafka

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

Spark/Databricks

JVM ecosystem

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or equivalent; Masters preferred

Tools

KStreams

Flink

Databricks

fs2

tapir

Kubernetes

Job description

Full time with top German MNC for location Bangalore - Experience on SCALA/Java is a must

Job Description

Design and deliver robust, production-grade & data-intensive applications that power business-critical use cases around the globe. In this role, you will operate across domains - owning architecture, raising engineering standards, and amplifying the impact of your team and the surrounding teams. Your responsibility spans backend services, cloud-native infrastructure, and data engineering, with a focus on building scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems.

A key success factor in this role is not only technical expertise, but to be able to understand & translate complex business requirements into scalable systems. The expectation is that you identify problems and opportunities, design solutions for them and implement them together with the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent; Masters degree preferred.

Additional Information

Roles & Responsibility:

• Design and own end-to-end architectures across microservices, event-driven systems, and data platforms.
• Build and deliver high-quality backend services and APIs that are reliable, secure, and scalable.
• Design and operate cloud-native infrastructure on Kubernetes, applying platform engineering best practices.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and products on Spark and Databricks where required.
• Drive event-driven architecture using Kafka and streaming technologies.
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable software — primarily in Scala with Python where appropriate.
• Lead architecture and design reviews; author lightweight design documents for major decisions.
• Define and improve engineering standards across testing, observability, CI/CD, and reliability.
• Coach and mentor engineers at multiple levels through reviews, design sessions, and pairing.
• Build observability into systems from day one (logs, metrics, tracing, alerting, SLOs).
• Deliver through CI/CD with safe release, rollback, and progressive delivery strategies.

Skills

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience across backend, platform and or data domains.
• Strong programming skills in Scala or Java (Scala preferred); other languages are a plus.
• Proven experience building distributed microservices and event-driven systems ideally in the Scala / JVM ecosystem (we use KStreams, Flink, cats-effect, fs2 & tapir)
• Hands-on experience with Kafka in production at scale.
• Solid experience designing and developing APIs (REST and/or event-driven interfaces).
• Strong knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL), data modeling, and query optimization.
• Experience building distributed data pipelines with Spark and/or Databricks.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical design and architecture decisions across teams.
• Experience mentoring and growing engineers.

Good To Have:

• Working knowledge of Kubernetes — workloads, networking, Helm, scaling, and operational practices.
• Experience with data governance, lakehouse table formats (Delta, Iceberg), and modern data platforms.
• Experience with platform engineering — building developer platforms, golden paths, or internal tooling.
• Performance profiling and JVM tuning experience.
• Experience with MLOps or data science platform integrations.

Collaboration Scope:

• Partner with domain and platform teams to translate complex requirements into resilient architectures.
• Work with technical & org leadership to shape cross-team technical strategy.
• Drive alignment on engineering standards and practices across engineering chapters or guilds.
• Support incident response, post-mortems, and systemic reliability improvements.
• Contribute to roadmaps that balance business priorities with technical sustainability and platform health.