Kafka Software Engineer Entry Level

Why USAA

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Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA where our core values honesty integrity loyalty and service define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

The Opportunity

Job Summary :

This role focuses on building and enhancing shared libraries and core platform components that support Kafka based event driven applications. The work plays a critical part in enabling application teams to deliver new features efficiently by improving how they interact with and integrate with the underlying platform.

The position includes developing new capabilities within internal tooling automation frameworks and platform services to help engineering teams work more consistently and effectively. Collaboration with application teams is a key aspect of the role ensuring systems follow best practices for reliability observability performance and scalability.

This opportunity offers broad exposure across multiple applications and distributed systems providing hands-on experience with event streaming platform engineering and real time system design. It is well suited for someone who wants to contribute to foundational engineering capabilities and have a meaningful impact across an entire technology organization.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position will be based in Plano TX or San Antonio TX. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

What youll do :

Under direct supervision design develop code and test technical solutions.

Write code to deliver features and improvements on a regular basis

Verify and resolve technical problems and production issues through troubleshooting techniques.

Improve application stability and scalability

Create and maintain technical documentation

Create and improve automated tests and code quality

Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified measured monitored and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have :

Bachelors Degree or 4 additional years of experience beyond the minimum requirement can be used in lieu of a degree ORApproved certification from CodeUp Galvanize VetFIT (Veterans for IT) or eFIT (Employees for IT).

Up to 2 years of software development experience.

Foundational and conceptual knowledge of function / discipline and demonstrated application of knowledge skills and abilities towards work products.

Basic Understanding of one or more of the following : Java Swift Objective-C Cobol JavaScript Kotlin C HTML CSS SQL Go and Python

Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions

Basic understanding of cloud technologies and tools.

What sets you apart :

Experience in Java and Spring Boot

Basic understanding of backend service development / practices

Familiarity with Apache Kafka concepts (producers consumers topics consumer groups)

Basic unit testing practices

Familiarity with Git

Experience with CI / CD Pipeline

Salary : The salary range for this position is : $63590.00- $121530.00

USAA does not provide visa sponsorship for this role. Please do not apply for this role if at any time (now or in the future) you will need immigration support (i.e. H-1B TN STEM OPT Training Plans etc.).

Compensation : USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

Benefits : At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical financial and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical dental and vision plans 401(k) pension life insurance parental benefits adoption assistance paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours and various wellness programs. Additionally our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

For more details on our outstanding benefits visit our benefits page on .

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.

USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.

Required Experience :

Junior IC

Key Skills

Spring,.NET,C / C++,Go,React,OOP,C#,Data Structures,JavaScript,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 63590 - 121530