Senior Associate Engineer (KAFKA) - Bethesda, MD

Title: Senior Associate Engineer (KAFKA) Location: Bethesda, MD Position: Contract Rate: Open Description:- • SPARK (or any other stream processing framework like Flume but SPARK & SPARK Streaming preferred) • Elastic Search (any other search engine will work too like Solr and Lucidworks but ElasticSearch is highly preferred over others) • KAFKA (or other evening / messaging systems like Rabbit MQ etc. but KAFKA will be highly preferred) • No SQL database (Couchbase, Mongo etc. but Couchbase highly preferred over others). • Akka based micro services implementation • Experience with architecture and developing enterprise applications that deal with data processing; no front-end implementation experience desired. • Applicant should be able to set up the tech stack locally, think through the solution options specifically from a faster data processing standpoint, and guide a set of developers on low level design. • Applicant should be able to work with disparate enterprise teams to gauge requirements and convert them into scalable application design. • Working with the offshore team creating design elements, guiding them on the application design based on requirements, and reviewing their deliverables. • Experience with other big data technologies is not needed but a data processing mindset is mandatory. This is not a web application developer role. Requirements Note: If interested please send your updated resume to and include your Rate requirement along with your contact details with a suitable time when we can reach you. If you know of anyone in your sphere of contacts, who would be a perfect match for this job then, we would appreciate if you can forward this posting to them with a copy to us. We look forward to hearing from you at the earliest!

Created: 2026-03-10