Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Innovaccer is a healthcare technology company that activates healthcare data to help providers, payers, and government organizations deliver connected experiences and improve health outcomes. The Senior Software Engineer will own the Kafka-based messaging backbone for the company's on-premise platform, including operating Kafka and Schema Registry, migrating cloud queue integrations, building reliable messaging libraries, and ensuring scalability and resilience.
Responsibilities
- Deploy and operate Kafka and Schema Registry on OpenShift via Strimzi: topic and partition design, retention policies, security, and quota management
- Redesign integrations built on cloud queue services (SQS/Service Bus patterns) onto self-hosted brokers, defining repeatable patterns for hundreds of producer and consumer touchpoints
- Build shared client patterns and libraries: retries, dead-letter queues, idempotent consumers, ordering guarantees, and backpressure handling
- Integrate messaging with the platform's function runtime through KEDA-driven scaling of queue consumers
- Own capacity planning for the messaging tier: broker disk and IO sizing, throughput modeling, and growth headroom
- Monitor consumer lag and broker health, run failure-mode testing, and harden the tier against node and site failures
Skills
- B.E., B.Tech., M.Sc. degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 5+ years of backend or data infrastructure experience, with significant production Kafka ownership covering both operations and client-side development
- Hands-on experience with at least one additional broker technology: RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ/Artemis, or NATS/JetStream
- Strong grasp of messaging semantics: delivery guarantees, idempotency, ordering, and exactly-once processing patterns
- Professional development experience with Java, Python, or Go
- Experience running Kafka on Kubernetes (Strimzi preferred) and managing schema evolution with Schema Registry
- Experience with KEDA or event-driven autoscaling is a plus; regulated-environment experience is a plus
Benefits
- 20 days of fixed time off per year, in addition to company holidays
- One of the industry’s most generous parental leave policies
- Monetary incentives and company-wide recognition for your impact and dedication
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 100% company-paid short- and long-term disability and basic life insurance
- Discounted legal aid and pet insurance
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