Sr Java Developer with Kafka Experience
10+ years
Remote position
NO Corp to Corp or IC/1099
Top 5 Technical Skills:
10+ years of SE Engineering and App Dev
Java 21 with SpringBoot
Kafka and CDC
Aurora PostgreSQL
AWS (MSK, RDS Aurora, EC2/ECS, S3)
CI/CD (see complete list below)
Top 2 Soft Skills:
Must be a self-driven engineer
Strong disciplines around Software Development
Java 21 and Spring Boot o Spring Cloud Stream for continuously running Kafka Data Streaming services o Spring Batch for nightly and on-demand jobs o Maven for building and dependency management o Spring Retry, JDBC, caching, and Actuator health endpoints
Kafka and CDC processing
o AWS MSK and Kafka consumer/producer troubleshooting o AWS DMS CDC JSON messages o Understanding insert, update, and delete before/after images o Consumer groups, offsets, partitions, ordering, retries, duplicates, lag, and replay o Lightweight balance-change events and full balance/error payloads
Database and SQL
o Aurora PostgreSQL o Oracle SQL o JDBC and transaction troubleshooting AWS operations o AWS MSK, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL, EC2/ECS, AWS Batch, Event Bridge, ElasticCache/Redis, S3, IAM, CloudFormation, and AWS CLI o Starting, stopping, and validating streaming services and scheduled batch jobs o Coordinating Kafka resets, cache resets, database refreshes, and controlled service restarts
CI/CD and development tooling o GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Nexus, SonarQube, IntelliJ or VS Code, Git, and Maven o Reading application profiles, environment variables, SSM configuration, deployment templates, and logs
Benefits:
SES hires W2 benefitted and non-benefitted consultants. Our contract employee benefits include group medical dental vision life LT and ST disability insurance, 21 days of accrued paid time off, 401k, tuition reimbursement, performance bonuses, paid overtime, and more.
Please contact me to discuss the details of this position further.
*Please forward resume directly to for immediate consideration - rstarinieri at sesc .com
I look forward to speaking with you soon!
Robin Starinieri
Director of Recruiting
Systems Engineering Services