Java​/Kafka Developer

Overview

Xenith Solutions is a small family focused business where we focus on taking care of our employees and customers equally. We are focused on serving Federal / Civilian, Defense and Intelligence organizations with superior service. If you want to be a part of a rapidly growing business with an exceptional culture, then you want to be a part of the Xenith Solutions family.

• 100% of Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits paid by employer
• FSA or HSA available
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k) matching (100% up to the first 4%) with NO vesting period
• Tuition / Certification / Training reimbursement
• Accident / Disability / Universal Life Insurance
• And much more…

Serve as an Agile Scrum team member providing software development and maintenance for the delivery of releasable software in short sprint cycles. Responsible for activities associated with delivery of software solutions associated with customer-defined systems and software projects by working in close collaboration with software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes.

Responsibilities include:

• Designing, developing, and implementing custom software and database application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight
• Acting as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a do what it takes attitude to ensure product and team success
• Providing improvements to the product(s) being supported
• Actively participate in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases
• Supporting release planning with conceptual design and development / refinement of software engineering guidelines
• Analyzing complex project-related problems and creating innovative solutions involving scheduling, technology, methodology, tools and solution components
• Ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports
• Providing mentoring to junior members of the team

Required:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation, criteria include but are not limited to:
• 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud
• 1 year check for illegal drug use
• 3 year check for felony convictions

• 5+ years of professional experience in Java backend development.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying applications with Spring Boot.
• Deep, proven expertise with Apache Kafka, including both the Producer and Consumer APIs, Kafka Streams, and related concepts (e.g., topics, partitions, consumer groups, offsets).
• Strong experience implementing Kafka solutions using Spring framework. Proficiency with Kafka Schema Registry for schema management and evolution.
• Solid understanding of event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and microservices design patterns.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., Postgre
  
  SQL, SQL Server, Oracle) and ORM frameworks (e.g., Spring Data JPA, Hibernate).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops practices. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and teamwork abilities.
• Professional
  
  Experience:
  
  at least seven (7) years related technical experience, with software design, development and implementation
• College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline.
• Equivalent professional experience will be considered in lieu of degree

Desired:

• Direct experience with Confluent Kafka.
• Experience with other No
  
  SQL databases (e.g., Mongo
  
  DB, Cassandra) or in-memory data stores (e.g., Redis).
• A strong understanding of data governance and data quality principles in an event-driven context.
• Dev Ops experience/CI/CD pipeline.

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