Sr./Staff Backend Engineer - Kafka

August 8

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Oscilar

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Fintech • Banking • Compliance

Oscilar is a risk management platform that focuses on fraud defense, credit underwriting, onboarding risk, and AML compliance for financial institutions. Through its advanced AI Risk Decisioning™, Oscilar enables organizations to make faster and more intelligent risk decisions, monitor customer journeys, and ensure regulatory compliance seamlessly. Oscilar's platform provides comprehensive analytics and proactive detection capabilities, tailored to meet the unique risk needs of banks, fintechs, and credit unions.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

📋 Compliance

📋 Description

• Shape the future of trust in the age of AI • Work alongside industry veterans from Meta, Uber, Citi, and Confluent • You'll be empowered to take responsibility, move fast, and make decisions • Your work will shape how modern finance detects fraud and manages risk. • Design, implement, and optimize services that leverage Apache Kafka • Scale and maintain databases such as Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB, and ClickHouse • Collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and drive the scalability, performance, and reliability of Oscilar’s backend systems.

🎯 Requirements

• Backend Development: 8+ years of experience with Java in large-scale, distributed environments. • Kafka Mastery: Extensive experience with Apache Kafka, including Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, partitioning, replication, and consumer group management. • Cloud Infrastructure: Strong experience with AWS services (e.g., MSK, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda). • Distributed Systems: Solid understanding of distributed system design, messaging patterns, and eventual consistency. • Performance Optimization: Proven ability to diagnose and resolve bottlenecks in streaming and database systems.

🏖️ Benefits

• Compensation: Competitive salary and equity packages, including a 401k • Flexibility: Remote-first culture — work from anywhere • Health: 100% Employer covered comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance with a top tier plan for you and your dependents (US and Canada) • Balance: Unlimited PTO policy • Technical: AI First company; both Co-Founders are engineers at heart; and over 50% of the company is Engineering and Product • Culture: Family-Friendly environment; Regular team events and offsites • Development: Unparalleled learning and professional development opportunities • Gear: Home office setup assistance • Impact: Making the internet safer by protecting online transactions