Senior Java Kafka Engineer

Job Title: Senior Java Kafka Engineer

Location: Charlotte, NC

Duration:6 Months

Experience Required: 10 & Above

Key Responsibilities

Application Development & Architecture

• Design and develop enterprise-grade full-stack applications.

• Build and maintain microservices using Java 17+, Spring Boot

• Design highly scalable RESTful APIs and event-driven systems.

• Implement resilient architectures leveraging Kafka and Flink for real-time data processing.

• Develop responsive front-end applications using Angular/React.

Streaming & Real-Time Data Processing

• Design Kafka topics, partitions, consumer groups, schemas, and message contracts.

• Implement Confluent Kafka solutions including:

o Kafka Connect

o Schema Registry

o Stream Processing

o Monitoring and Governance

• Develop and optimize Apache Flink streaming jobs for:

o Real-time analytics

o Data transformation

o Event enrichment

o Stateful stream processing

Cloud & DevOps

• Design and deploy solutions on AWS.

• Work with:

o Lambda

o S3

o RDS

o DynamoDB

o API Gateway

o CloudWatch

o IAM

• Build CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or AWS Code Pipeline.

Python Development

• Develop Python utilities and automation frameworks.

• Build data-processing workflows and batch jobs.

• Create operational scripts and monitoring tools.

Performance Engineering

• Develop and execute JMeter performance tests.

• Identify application bottlenecks.

• Tune Kafka consumers/producers.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 7-13 years of software engineering experience.

• Hands-on working exp with Confluent Kafka and Apache Flink applications

• Hands-on AWS development experience

Technical Skills

Backend

• Java 11/17+

• Spring Boot

• Microservices Architecture

Messaging

• Confluent Kafka

• Kafka Connect

• Schema Registry

• Event Streaming

Stream Processing

• Apache Flink

• Stateful Processing

• Windowing

• Checkpointing

Front End

• Angular or React

• TypeScript

• HTML5

• CSS3

Cloud

• AWS Services

• Testing

• JUnit

• Mockito

• JMeter

Skills: Digital : Python~Digital : Amazon Web Service(AWS) Cloud Computing~Digital : Kafka~Advanced Java Concepts~Digital : Spring Boot~JMETER