Java Kafka Developer Jobs in Durham, NC (NOW HIRING)

Java Developer (with Aurora RDS exp.) - local or nearby to Cary, NC only - Immediate Joining

6+ MONTHS CONTRACT

CARY, NORTH CAROLINA

NEED LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY

HYBRID OPPORTUNITY

VISA- NO CPT/H1B

Location: Cary, NC

Onsite: Client roles will be required T, W & Thurs.

Anticipated Start Date: ASAP

Communication skills required: Excellent

Working hours/Hour Per Day: 8

Background Checks Required: Yes

Interview Process/Times: 2 Zoom interviews

Position Summary: A Senior Software Engineer will develop, maintain, and support new or existing software products while evangelizing and applying the best practices of software development. Responsibilities include the ability to work independently and as part of the leadership group of a larger team to deliver quality solutions across all phases and layers of the software lifecycle.

Essential Functions:

Quality:

• Meet or exceed test coverage goals set for the project through creation of unit and functional tests.
• Minimize the number of production escapes.
• Support user acceptance testing.
• Support or conduct system testing, performance, volume, and stress testing.
• Incorporate secure coding practices.

Usability/User Experience:

• Collaborate with business and UX team to create appropriate application User interfaces.
• Assist with mock-ups, user interface design.
• Incorporate UX components into application.
• Provide feedback to UX team.

Product Reliability & Response:

• Ensure system can meet or exceed defined SLA's.
• When primary on-call respond to pages within 15min, and resolve or escalate issue as necessary.
• Resolve production issues and communicate resolution to appropriate stakeholders.

Development:

• Complete stories within estimates and with quality to ensure release dates are met.
• Conduct necessary analysis, design, and prepare technical documentation
• Estimate story sizes and task out development for a given story.
• Follow the Client development process and suggest improvements.
• Work with infrastructure services to make configuration changes and deploy applications.

Leadership(Technical):

• Evangelize Client's common practices and development procedures.
• Exhibit technical leadership in given technical subject domain.
• Identify new technologies and approaches that may improve our quality, productivity, and capabilities.
• Mentor peers and junior developers.
• Delegate, and coordinate functional development tasks as needed.
• Drive innovation in the development, release, and operations processes.

Key Measures: Measurable objective metrics

Knowledge, Skills, abilities/minimum requirements/competencies:

• Works under deadlines and subject to heavy project load.
• Ability to provide technical expertise to others and explain concepts with technical staff.
• Ability to operate independent of supervision with extreme accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience in defining requirements, designing, and illustrating process flows, and training users.
• Ability to communicate and follow up professionally(written and oral) both internally and externally within the organization –including documentation of application requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues effectively.
• Ability to mentor others.
• 7 years of Java/J2EE Web Development Experience.
• Comfortable with front-end, middle tier and backend technologies.
• Expertise in front-end technologies like Angular, Spring MVC or equivalent, hands-on experience in these technologies a must in last 3 years.
• Expertise in Spring, Spring Boot and hibernate or equivalent ORM, hands on experience in these technologies a must in last 2 years.
• Experience is working with Docker and Kubernetes environment, hands on experience in building docker applications.
• Web Service SOAP/REST expertise, especially as a service provider.
• Experience with Agile software development methodology.
• Expertise in using version control software like git, etc.
• Strong understanding of deployment processes, deployment environments, production application trouble shooting techniques etc. too.
• Experience to work with AWS cloud native services like S3, EC2, CloudFront, Lambda, ELB, SNS, CloudWatch and Route53.
• Experience to deploy application components in AWS EKS cluster and to debug any issues.
• Experience in using Aurora Postgres RDS for database.
• Experience in using Amazon Active MQ for message broker service will be a plus.
• Experience in using event streaming platform like Kafka will be a plus.
• Experience in using Terraform will be a plus.

Education, experience, certification/training:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 7 years of technical experience or
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 3 years of technical experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a development environment.
• AWS Developer or Solutions Architect certification will be a plus.

Skill Matrix to filled by Candidate Java – Spring – Spring MVC - Spring Boot – Hibernate - AWS, S3, EC2, Lambda - Kafka – RabbitMQ – Docker/Kubernetes – Aurora RDS – ActiveMQ – Terraform – SQS –