Lead Java Developer

Indotronix Avani Group (Pittsburgh PA, USA) Follow 2 hours ago

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Position Title: Lead Java Developer

Location: Strongsville, OH and Pittsburgh, PA

Ability to work remote: 5 days onsite.

Acceptable time zone(s): EST

Days of the week: M-F 40 hours

Working Hours: M-F 8-5 EST

OT: Yes, possible

Intended length of Assignment: 12/31/2026

Contract to hire W2

Function of the Group/Initiatives/Projects: We are part of a data platform in retail. DSP-COE

Industry background: Finance/Banking a plus, open to other backgrounds

Team Dynamic: Business analysts and testing teams at least nine on team that will be joining, team in GCC offshore and interact with the different businesses.

Roles/Responsibilities:

Must have:

Multiple years of experience in software development with strong focus on Java / J2EE technologies.
Proven experience in programming JAVA based microservices, Kafka, Kstreams, Configuration and Optimization.
Strong knowledge of Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, REST APIs.
Hands-on experience writing queries with Oracle.
Good understanding of containerization technologies like OCP, Docker, Kubernetes
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, and automated testing tools.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to lead technical teams.
Provides technical guidance and support to colleagues and solution development.

Preferred Skills:

Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging systems like Kafka.
Exposure to SAFE Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Understanding of Kafka architecture (brokers, partitions, topics, producers, consumers)
Experience with Kafka Producers and Consumers using the Kafka Java client
Distributed Processing Concepts (Just a high level)
Integration with External Systems
Connecting Kafka Streams with databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra)
Using Kafka Connect for external data integration
Knowledge of REST APIs and how to expose data from Kafka Streams
Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployment, OpenShift
Using CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
Logging and tracing using ELK (Elasticsearch) or OpenTelemetry (High level understanding)
Experience building REST APIs using Spring Boot, Spring Data and reading from databases via APIs
Monitoring ( Dynatrace) and Optimization, Kafka Streams metrics (through JMX, Grafana, Prometheus)

Must have skills:

Years of experience: at least 8 years Software development