ONSITE - 3 DAYS A WEEK (MANDATORY - TORONTO) Strong hands-on development in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and REST APIs Deep Kafka experience - understands fundamentals, event-driven architecture, and practical implementation Experience with Apache Flink streaming - able to explain core concepts such as sources, sinks, and data streams Spark or distributed data processing exposure considered strong asset Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and fault tolerance Database k