Sr Java Developer - Java 21, Kafka, CDC, DMS, AWS, RDS Experience - MST OR CST Time Zones

Sr Java Developer with Kafka Experience

10+ years

Remote position

NO Corp to Corp or IC/1099

Top 5 Technical Skills

10+ years of SE Engineering and App Dev

Java 21 with SpringBoot

Kafka and CDC

Aurora PostgreSQL

AWS (MSK, RDS Aurora, EC2/ECS, S3)

CI/CD (see complete list below)

Top 2 Soft Skills

Must be a self-driven engineer

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

Benefits

SES hires W2 benefitted and non-benefitted consultants. Our contract employee benefits include group medical dental vision life LT and ST disability insurance, 21 days of accrued paid time off, 401k, tuition reimbursement, performance bonuses, paid overtime, and more.

Please contact me to discuss the details of this position further.

*Please forward resume directly to for immediate consideration - rstarinieri at sesc .com

I look forward to speaking with you soon!

Robin Starinieri

Director of Recruiting

Systems Engineering Services