Release Engineer: Kafka, Kotlin & CI Expert

GrowthEdge Corp; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

GrowthEdge Corp in Aurora is assembling a world-class technology team and seeks a Release Engineer who can deliver under pressure. The position offers $90,000 to $127,000 plus comprehensive benefits and a path to leadership within technology.

You will work with Kafka, Angular, and Kotlin to containerize apps, optimize deployments, and maintain backward-compatible schemas, while partnering with QA and incident reviews to reduce outages and keep CI fast.

Qualifications

• 4+ years technology experience across multiple cycles.
• 3+ years steering technology projects end to end.
• Strong foundation in Creativity developed over 4+ years.
• Proven leadership in mid-level initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Learn Kafka tool needs with technology users in Aurora.
• Containerize applications and manage deployments with Angular and Kafka.
• Tune Kotlin queries to reduce timeouts in the CO database.
• Keep Kafka schemas backward-compatible to avoid breaking upgrades.
• Partner with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions.
• Drive the Kotlin incident postmortem to prevent outages.
• Keep GrowthEdge Corp's Kafka CI under ten minutes for flow.
• Translate business requirements into technical specs and tasks.

Skills

Creativity

Leadership

Project management

Tools

Kafka

Angular

Kotlin

CI/CD

Job description

GrowthEdge Corp in Aurora is assembling a world-class technology team and seeks a Release Engineer who can deliver under pressure. The position offers $90,000 to $127,000 plus comprehensive benefits and a path to leadership within technology.

You will work with Kafka, Angular, and Kotlin to containerize apps, optimize deployments, and maintain backward-compatible schemas, while partnering with QA and incident reviews to reduce outages and keep CI fast.