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Sr Java Developer with Kafka Experience - MST OR CST Time Zones - ZL

SESUnited States🇺🇸United StatesPosted 6 Aug 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Remote
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

  • Sr Java Developer with Kafka Experience

    10+ years

    Remote position

    NO Corp to Corp or IC/1099

    Top 5 Technical Skills:

    1. 10+ years of SE Engineering and App Dev
    2. Java 21 with SpringBoot
    3. Kafka and CDC
    4. Aurora PostgreSQL
    5. AWS (MSK, RDS Aurora, EC2/ECS, S3)
    6. CI/CD (see complete list below)

    Top 2 Soft Skills:

    1. Must be a self-driven engineer
    2. 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

About SES:
Systems Engineering Services Corporation (SESC), founded in 1989, is a leading provider of technology solutions to Fortune 1000 companies and government organizations. Specializing in Accelerated Development Services (agile application development, mobile, systems integration, project and program management), Architecture Services (SOA, microservices, Cloud), Data Services (DW, BI, Big Data), Testing, Cyber Security and DevOps, SESC is guided by a corporate mission to provide valuable solutions to our client s technology needs through responsive quality services.
Contact Information:
Please contact me for all of the details of the client company, environment, and the position. I look forward to speaking with you.

 

Skills

Docker
Microservices
Oracle
SQL
Spring
Spring Boot
AWS
SonarQube
Agile
CloudFormation
Git
Java
Jenkins
Kafka
PostgreSQL
Redis

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