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We are looking for a Senior Kafka Developer for a global automotive company in Gothenburg. Start is ASAP, 10 months contract to start with. This role is 100% onsite in Gothenburg.

What is offered?

For those who want to grow together with talented colleagues who are shaping a new automotive future, there are exciting career opportunities available.

The company is progressing toward a digital future across many parts of the business. One key success factor is the development of new digital products that help deliver coherent user experiences. Digital services complement and enhance vehicles, enable new business models, and increase the pace of innovation throughout the enterprise. Users are always put first, guided by a human-centric mindset.

What’s in it for you?

A passionate and technically skilled engineer is sought for the Event Streaming product within the Integration domain.

The Integration domain is responsible for enabling secure, reliable, and scalable integrations across the organization and with third-party organizations. It provides and operates core integration platforms and sets standards, tooling, and ways of working that allow product teams and partners to integrate efficiently. The focus is on self-service, automation, and operational excellence, ensuring integrations are easy to build, safe to run, and aligned with enterprise architecture and security requirements.

Vision:

“Our services are the backbone of the integration landscape, making integration simple, secure, and stable.”

This role plays an active part in the transformation of how integrations are developed by supporting the self-service roadmap, enabling application teams to fully manage their integrations.

The purpose of the role

The main purpose of this role is to ensure a sound architecture and that capabilities meet customer needs, always striving to stay one step ahead.

What you’ll do

As a Kafka Software Engineer, close collaboration with the Service Manager is essential to deliver the Kafka platform effectively. The role involves developing new capabilities and ensuring a robust architecture for both the platform and its supporting tooling.

The team is responsible for fine-tuning operational excellence, automating lifecycle management, continuously developing platform capabilities, and ensuring effective monitoring, logging, and dashboards. The event streaming platform is continuously improved to remain modern and fit for purpose.

The role also includes supporting the organization in learning how to make optimal use of Kafka. A key responsibility is guiding development teams on best practices and enabling self-service capabilities.

Main responsibilities:

• Ensure the Kafka platform is well-architected and delivers the capabilities required by the developer community.

• Establish a unified company-wide platform and support product teams in migrating to the central offering when applicable.

• Participate in third-level support when platform-related issues arise.

• Support product teams in designing their Kafka usage.

• Assist development teams in onboarding to the platform.

• Create a reference architecture outlining best practices for Kafka usage from ICoE.

• Maintain technical documentation for the platform.

You and your skills

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in creating Kafka clusters in Kubernetes environments and establishing supporting tools such as kSQL, Kafka Connect, MirrorMaker 2, and Schema Registry. Knowledge of the Strimzi distribution of Kafka is required.

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of relevant experience designing and implementing software solutions using Apache Kafka.

• Strong experience and deep understanding of event-driven architecture, including hands-on management of Kafka platforms.

• Solid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles and methodologies.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with teams, platform customers, and stakeholders.

• Strong technical background with a focus on software development principles and best practices.

• Experience writing structured, high-quality code and working with core development concepts such as code reviews, pull requests, and testing.

• Experience building automation and self-service workflows.

As a person, the ideal candidate is customer-focused and passionate about solving problems. They are flexible, creative, open to new ideas, and continuously seeking improvement. They enjoy initiating and driving transformation, bring energy and forward-thinking perspectives, and actively push innovation. Strong communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills with teams and global stakeholders are essential.

This is a full-time consultant position in Gothenburg through Incluso. Start is ASAP, 10 months limited contract to begin with, with possibility of extension after that. This role is 100% onsite in Gothenburg (Torslanda).

Please submit your CV as soon as possible since we will review the applications on an on-going basis.

For more information about this role, please contact Marianne Nilsson, recruiter at Incluso.