Senior Software Developer / Data Engineer - Johannesburg

Hire Resolve's client is looking for a Senior Software Developer/ Data Engineer to join their team in Johannesburg, GP. The candidate should have a strong hands‑on experience in Apache Kafka and Apache Flink to support the development of high‑performance, real‑time data processing systems . This role is critical in ensuring scalable, fault‑tolerant, and event‑driven architecture that can handle high user interaction and data throughput.

Responsibilities

• Built real‑time data ingestion pipelines using Apache Kafka for ingesting user behavior and transactional events.

• Designed Flink‑based streaming applications for complex event processing (CEP), sessionization, and near real‑time analytics.

• Integrated Flink with Kafka, object storage (S3), and NoSQL stores for enriched data processing.

• Tuned Kafka and Flink for optimal throughput and minimal latency.

• Worked in agile env...