Kafka Engineer

Job title: Senior Java Developer
Role is onsite (5 days/wk) based out of Columbus, OH
Only W2 Pay Rate Any Visa will Work
Years of experience required: 12-16
Mandatory skills: Java, Microservices, AWS, Database, Kafka
Technical Skills

• Backend Java 8/11/17/21
• Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud
• Microservices Architecture
• RESTful APIs, GraphQL
• Hibernate, JPA, JDBC
• OAuth2, JWT, Spring Security
• Design Patterns, Domain Driven Design (DDD)
• Messaging & Streaming
• Apache Kafka
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Kafka Streams
• Cloud & DevOps AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM)
• Docker, Kubernetes
• Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• Terraform, CloudFormation
• Maven, Gradle
• Databases Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis
• Monitoring & Logging Splunk, ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus
• Tools & Methodologies Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Agile/Scrum
• JUnit, Mockito, Postman, SonarQube

Certifications Required
Preferred certifications include AWS Certified Developer Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate and Java focused credentials such as Oracle Certified Professional Java Programmer.
Senior Java Full Stack Developer with 12+ years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying enterprise-scale applications using Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, and AWS Cloud.
Proven expertise in building cloud-native, event-driven, and highly scalable distributed systems for Banking, Financial Services, and Enterprise domains.
Strong experience across the full software development lifecycle, including architecture, development, testing, CI/CD, containerization, and cloud deployment.

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