Staff Engineer: BPM, Kafka & Java Microservices

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Nagarro is seeking an experienced specialist to drive BPM and integration efforts using Camunda/IBM BPM and Kafka/Confluent. You will design, implement, and deploy BPM solutions and mentor fellow developers to advance automation and efficiency across projects.

Expertise in Java/Spring Boot, REST, microservices, and event-driven architectures will be essential to deliver scalable processes and robust UIs.

Qualifications

• 5 years practical experience in business process analysis and working with IBM BPM/BAW or Camunda (modeling, automations, orchestration, deployments, monitoring)
• 5+ years software development with Java/Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
• Hands on IBM BPM/BAW or Camunda 7/8 delivery: modelling BPMN/DMN, external task workers, incident handling, deployment/operate
• Proven experience modeling and deploying workflows in IBM BPM/BAW or Camunda Modeler and integrating them with custom UIs
• Practical integration with event streaming (Kafka or Confluent)
• 2+ years practical experience in analysing processes to identify automation opportunities

Responsibilities

• To realise the detailed design through programming and configuration and provide guidance and mentoring to other software developers.

Skills

Camunda BPM

IBM BPM

Kafka/Confluent

CI/CD Azure DevOps

Tools

Camunda Modeler

Job description

Nagarro is seeking an experienced specialist to drive BPM and integration efforts using Camunda/IBM BPM and Kafka/Confluent. You will design, implement, and deploy BPM solutions and mentor fellow developers to advance automation and efficiency across projects.

Expertise in Java/Spring Boot, REST, microservices, and event-driven architectures will be essential to deliver scalable processes and robust UIs.