Java Full Stack Developer

Job Title: Java Full Stack Developer

Duration: 6-12 months

Location: Onsite Plano-TX

Work Type:

Rate: Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

Skills :

10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years architecting cloud-native services on AWS.

Expert-level proficiency in Java 11+/17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Security; strong understanding of JVM internals and performance tuning.

Hands-on production experience with Apache Kafka: topic design, consumer group management, schema registry, and stream processing (Kafka Streams or equivalent).

Solid understanding of microservices patterns: service decomposition, API gateway, circuit breaking, event sourcing, and CQRS.

Strong AWS skills across compute (ECS/EKS/Lambda), networking (VPC, ALB, API Gateway), storage (RDS, DynamoDB, S3), messaging (SNS/SQS, EventBridge), and security (IAM, KMS, WAF).

Proficient with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions or Jenkins), containerisation (Docker), and IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation).

Experience with SQL (PostgreSQL/Aurora/MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB/DocumentDB); practical Redis caching strategies.

Front-end capability in React + TypeScript, including component architecture, routing, and state management.

Strong written and verbal communication; ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers.

CORE TECHNOLOGY STACK:

Backend : Java 17, Spring Boot 3, Spring Cloud, Spring WebFlux, JPA/Hibernate, Resilience4j

Messaging : Apache Kafka, AWS SNS/SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis, Avro, Schema Registry

APIs : REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI 3, Pact, WireMock

Data : PostgreSQL / Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis / ElastiCache, S3, OpenSearch

Frontend :React 18, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, React Query, Vite, Jest, Playwright

AWS : ECS / EKS / Lambda, API Gateway, ALB, Route 53, CloudFront, IAM, KMS, WAF

DevOps & IaC :Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana

ABOUT Ztek:

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Ztek Consulting Inc is a minority- and woman-owned business enterprise that leverages a unique blend of human talent, machine learning algorithms, and artificial intelligence to provide customized talent management solutions for clients. Ztek's diversity-focused hiring models have proven successful, particularly in hiring veterans. The company's veteran-focused hiring and deployment program, Z-V.E.T, matches skilled veterans with clients' needs in various areas.

Disclaimer:

Ztek is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Ztek is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national origin, citizenship, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the statutes, rules, and regulations in the locations where it operates.If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us at Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Ztek encourages all interested and qualified candidates to apply for employment opportunities. Ztek does not discriminate against applicants based on citizenship status, immigration status, or national origin, in accordance with 8 U.S.C. 1324b.