Highly knowledgeable with hands-on experience on high throughput messaging systems like Kafka, SNSSQS, Rabbit, etc (Kafka preferred) Advanced experience working with relational databases (MySQLAuroraMS SQL) and NoSQL data stores (Dynamo, Mongo, Cassandra) Extensive hands-on experience building scalable, low latency, high-throughput APIs Expertise with full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc