Staff Software Engineer

Our team is the connective tissue of this platform. We own the full data ingress pipeline — from third-party devices (Cisco, Aruba, and beyond) to our internal Kafka backbone — and we own egress: streaming enriched location and telemetry data out to downstream systems, external APIs, and partner platforms. We are rebuilding this domain the right way: event-driven, observable, documented, and built to scale.

We need a technical anchor — someone senior enough to raise the bar, pragmatic enough to ship, and confident enough to drive alignment across engineering and product.

What you will work on:

Data ingress & device integration

Own the pipeline that brings external device data into the Kontakt.io platform. Build and maintain robust integrations with Cisco Spaces, Aruba, and similar third-party infrastructure. High-volume BLE telemetry, Kafka Streams, gRPC — multi-tenant SaaS where both correctness and latency matter.

Data egress & external integrations

Build and evolve the egress layer that streams enriched location and event data to partner systems and customer-facing APIs — real-time position feeds, alarm forwarding, standards-compliant adapters. You own how the outside world consumes Kontakt.io data.

Architecture & technical leadership

You will drive the architectural evolution: what to rewrite, what to stabilize, and how to sequence it without breaking production. You establish the engineering standards — documentation, testing with Testcontainers, observability with Prometheus/Grafana — and you hold the team to them.

Cross-team ownership

Work directly with product stakeholders to translate business requirements into engineering decisions. When scope is unclear, you clarify it. When dependencies block the team, you resolve them.