Role: Java Developer with Kafka

Location: NYC, Wilmington, DE Onsite

Duration: 12+ Months

Type: Contract

Minimum total 11 yrs experience & 5 yrs in banking/financial domain.

Primary Skillset

Job Responsibilities

· Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems

· Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Develop and maintain backend services using Java / Spring Boot.
• Build and manage event-driven applications using Apache Kafka.
• Design, deploy, and optimize solutions on AWS (Lambda, EC2, ECS, S3, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Implement REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on design, architecture, and code reviews.
• Ensure security, scalability, and high availability of cloud applications.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong proficiency in Java 8 and Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (producers, consumers, topics, partitions).
• Solid understanding of AWS services (at least 2–3 core services).
• Experience with microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven architecture.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, Git, and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes is a plus).