Role: Python Developer

Visa : USC, GC, H1, H4 EAD

Job location: Columbus, OH or Nashville, TN (both locations would be for on site work)

Key Responsibilities

Kafka & Streaming Platform Leadership

•   Lead the design and implementation of enterprise Kafka and Confluent Platform solutions (Kafka, Schema Registry, Connect, ksqlDB).

•   Define and enforce topic design, partitioning, retention, and schema evolution standards.

•   Act as technical owner for Kafka clusters across dev, test, and production environments.

•   Drive best practices for high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability.

Python Development (Producers & Consumers)

•   Design and develop Python-based Kafka producers and consumers using Confluent Kafka Python APIs.

•   Build event-driven microservices and streaming applications in Python.

•   Implement message serialization and sch

Preferred Qualifications

•   Experience with ksqlDB, Kafka Streams, or stream processing frameworks (Flink, Spark Streaming).

•   Exposure to event sourcing or CQRS patterns.

•   Integration of Kafka with data lakes, warehouses, and analytics platforms.

•   Confluent or cloud platform certifications.

•   Experience supporting high-throughput, low-latency systems.

Soft Skills & Leadership

•   Strong communication skills across engineering and stakeholder teams.

•   Ability to translate business use cases into event-driven technical solutions.

•   Comfortable acting as both hands-on developer and technical lead.

•   Experience influencing architecture and standards across teams.