Kafka Engineer

About Exness

Exness is a multi-asset broker with an international team of approximately 1,800 people, a third of whom work in the Technology, Data and Security offices. Our goal in Exness is to develop exceptional products that will help experienced traders to trade various assets with better-than-market conditions.

Since our founding in 2008, we work with the firm belief that trading can - and should - be ethical. And so we developed proprietary algorithms and services to give our clients the most effective trading tools and conditions in the industry. Ambitious business goals balanced by genuine care for our customers and a healthy level of technical perfectionism define our model. And thanks to this approach, in 2022, our monthly trading volume reached $2.7 trillion, and the number of active users exceeded 320,000 people worldwide.

Our chosen path encourages employees to deepen their technical expertise, rely on scientific methods, and seek innovative solutions. We work on a modern stack without having to deal with excess legacy, and our architecture stands on k8s, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, REST or gRPC as an alternative. We use the GitOps through Gitlab CI approach and cover everything with automated integration testing. Some of our teams' favorites are ClickHouse, MongoDB, React, and Flink.

Our clusters are automatically managed through the code and can handle thousands of events per second. We use Kafka to decentralize our service, and the main languages our tech team uses are Python and Go while in the Trading Core, we also use C++ and C#.

For the front-end, we use React, and most of the projects are TypeScript SPAs using technologies such as Web-sockets, Service Worker, PWA, Web-push, AB-testing, and Webpack Federation.

The people we’ve brought together come from many different countries with vast experience from leading IT companies. Although some of them work remotely, our main development office is located in Limassol, Cyprus. Any colleague who wants to relocate to Cyprus, whether alone or with family, will be provided with exceptional support, including a corporate MINI Countryman and financial allowance for private schools and kindergartens.

Our teams are constantly expanding and we’re always seeking the best talent to join us in providing the best possible trading experience to our clients. So check out the many exciting vacancies we have on our career website.

Position

The role will be focused on the implementation of complex business logic inside web-stack in the area of financial markets. We're looking for a person who will extend, optimize, and support the production of the existing software solutions, ensuring we capture as much value from the market as possible. You will research and innovate new ideas in high reliable, low-latency, and high-load computing in financial markets.

You will:

• Stand up and administer on-premise Kafka clusters
• Architect and create a reference architecture for Kafka Implementation standards
• Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, and KSQL
• Ensure the optimum performance, high availability, and stability of solutions
• Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts, and has good knowledge of best practices
• Provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform like provisioning, access lists, and SSL configurations
• Be involved in design and capacity review meetings to provide suggestions in Kafka usage
• Provide naming conventions, Backup & Recovery, and problem determination strategies for the projects
• Monitor, prevent, and troubleshoot issues
• Provide vision in engineering solutions that touch the messaging queue aspect of the infrastructure
• Building geo-distributed systems

Your qualification

• Experience with Kafka, zookeepers, Kafka connect, Cruise Control, and schema registry
• Experience with Terraform and Vault
• Experience with strimzi Kafka operator would be a plus
• Experience with the Gitlab CI
• Solid knowledge of monitoring tools and fine-tuning alerts on Prometheus alert manager or Grafana
• Solid knowledge of Kubernetes administration

What we offer

• A fairly estimated and attractive package (competitive salary based on your expectations and internal benchmark) with the ability to start working remotely anywhere in the world
• Company Car - the company will provide Exness-branded cars to those who relocated to Cyprus, parking near the office or a bus tickets
• We’ll pay school or kindergarten fees (Annual Registration or Tuition Fees, Regular term fees, Half day service to kindergartens) for your children between 0 years - 18 years, up to three (3) children
• L&D - support your need to replenish your knowledge and acquire new skills to do your job better via Continuous product education, Professional training & Certifications, Soft skill training, Language classes, and our very own Exness library
• Sports Benefits - Our very own Sports Club with dedicated coaches doing group and individual training, on-site and online, sharing healthy recipes and life hacks + Free Sanctum Club Membership for you and your spouse. Jet Skis (if you have a speed boat operator license)
• Medical - in addition to having a Corporate Doctor, we cooperate with one of the biggest international insurance companies in order to provide medical insurance for you and your families. Coverage is provided for you, your spouse, and your children up to 18 years old. It includes Inpatient, Outpatient, and international support

Additional details

Relocation to CY Package

• Medical tests, COVID-19 tests, apostille, express delivery
• Taxi or public transport to airport of departure
• One way air tickets for employees and family members
• Expenses in case of luggage overweight up to 200 euros per family
• Pets’ transportation (not more than 2)