Sr. Java Developer w/Kafka
Must be on-site five days a week in Woodlawn, MD
*** Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site in Woodlawn, MD 5 days a week.
Key Required Skills:
Strong experience with Apache or Confluent Kafka, Kafka Streams, Java, REST API development, Spring Boot, and Agile Development Practices
Position Description
Design and develop software applications using Twelve-Factor App methodology from functional requirement Design and develop applications using Kafka, Java, REST API and spring boot.
Collaborate with product design and engineering teams to develop an understanding of ne
Attend all Agile ceremonies.
Mentor Junior staff
Design and develop Microservices using Spring Boot, Java and RESTful architecture.
Solid understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and tools such as Jenkins, Git, or Bitbucket, and experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and containerization technologies.
All other duties as assigned or directed.
Skills Requirements
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field
- Masters or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience
- Hands on experience with Kafka
- 10+ years of experience with programming and designing software with Java
- 8+ years of experience on an Agile development team, preferable Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.
Required Skills
These skills will help you succeed in this position:
- Strong design and development experience with Kafka and Kafka Stream Processing technologies.
- Experience developing an event streaming pipeline, via Kafka, which includes a listener.
- Extensive Design and Programming skills in Java and JEE technologies.
- Strong experience working with RESTFUL API
- Extensive development skills using latest Spring Boot and Spring Security Experience.
- Experience with front end technologies like Angular
- Experience architecting and deploying cloud-native applications onto Amazon Web Services (AWS) or similar.
- Experience identifying requirements, researching options, designing and implementing solutions at a leadership level on project work.
- Experience with modern development software, tools, and methodologies; Jenkins, Git/BitBucket, Jira, Nexus, Maven, & Jenkins.
- Experience working on Agile projects and understanding Agile terminology.
- Excellent communication and written skills.
Experience with Web Services Technologies like JSON