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.