# Kafka Integration Engineer (80 hours)

Description We are seeking a Kafka Integration Engineer (80 hours work per month) to lead and execute data integration initiatives between our customers’ Kafka streams and internal APIs. This is a hands-on engineering role that requires a strong understanding of real-time data processing, microservices, and cloud-native technologies. You will collaborate closely with customer engineering teams and internal DevOps to build scalable, efficient, and secure data pipelines. Key Responsibilities: Design, build, and maintain Kafka consumers to ingest and batch-process customer event data. Implement message parsing and transformation logic (JSON, Avro, Protobuf) to align with Captain Up’s event structure. Develop and configure provider-specific customer integrations. Manage secure credentials using AWS Secrets Manager and handle per-application configurations. Deploy and monitor services in Kubernetes using Helm. Work with DevOps to troubleshoot deployments, monitor performance, and ensure system reliability. Requirements Proficient in Node.js and TypeScript. Strong experience with Apache Kafka and libraries like KafkaJS or similar. Hands-on experience designing and consuming REST/HTTP API

- **Id**: 3611286
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/comm-it-kafka-integration-engineer-80-hours>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Athens, Greece
- **Countries**: GR
- **Hiring countries**: GR
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T12:10:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T16:29:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 7
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2274
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2313062
- **Name**: Comm-IT
- **Domain**: comm-it.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/comm-it-com>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Comeet

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.833
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 24
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Slack** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 7

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Greece** — Iso: GR; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-02T14:26:06Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.626
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 24
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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