Kafka Developer

Integrations Developer

Apex Systems, the nation’s 2nd largest IT Staffing organization, has immediate and exciting opportunity located in Columbus, Ohio. This is a six-month open ended contract opportunity. The organization offers several perks including casual dress code, training opportunities, an onsite café, on-site fitness facilities, and a strong company culture.

Responsibilities:

This position will work on Warehouse Management System custom applications and integrations between host systems and third-party logistic partners.

This position will be responsible for designing the micro service architecture, Cloud API development, CI/CD process and tool selection, etc.

This position is responsible for developing API, event streams in the Modern Integrations platform, utilizing best practices, and performing review of teams deliverables.

Required Skills:

Able to develop and work in diverse environment of integration tools and platforms to support driving modern integrations transformation.

Experience working on IBM MQ, Oracle ESB, SOA, Apigee, REST APIs, Microservices, GraphQL, etc. and consumer/producer event driven architecture Kafka

2+ years of experiencing designing and building microservices/APIs, CI/CD automation in cloud preferably in a Kubernetes and GitLab environments

Strong experience in designing, coding and unit testing

Experience working with teams in Agile methodology

Excellent problem solving, issue identification, analytical and technical documentation skills

Experience with modern integrations development and design concepts; software development lifecycle; project management; advanced and systems administration practices and principles; planning, design, and problem resolution

Experience of emerging trends and developments in Azure cloud, API/microservices, Springboot, CI/CD, ESB, Event driven and container-based technologies.

Strong Java development experience with Java 8 and later.

Experience working in a Retail industry and on WMS applications is a plus.

Experience with Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, and XML is a plus.

Experience mentoring and leading a small team of developers.