Kafka Senior Developer - Benton Harbor, MI 49022 (Remote)

Job title: Kafka Senior Developer

Location: Benton Harbor, MI 49022 (Remote)
Duration: 6 months




Integration Developer (Kafka / Java SpringBoot Microservice)
Position Summary: Responsible for designing, developing, testing, and supporting microservices, event-driven integrations, and cloud-native integration solutions across customer's enterprise integration ecosystem leveraging Confluent Kafka, SpringBoot Microservice, GCP, Apigee (good to have).




Key Responsibilities:
Develop event-driven integrations using Kafka.
Administer, config and support Kafka service on Confluent Cloud
Create and manage Kafka topics / partitions
Experience with Kafka connect framework
Design and develop enterprise API backends with SpringBoot Java microservices and Kafka based event integration solutions.
Support migration and modernization of legacy integrations.
Participating in Agile ceremonies, testing, deployment and production support.
Collaborate with architects, SAP teams, cloud teams and DevOps engineers.




Required Skills:
Confluent Kafka administration
Kafka Connect framework, SAP connector
Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Python (preferred)
Event-Driven Architecture
Apigee, REST APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger (good to have)
GCP, Kubernetes/GKE
BitBucket Git, CI/CD
Unit testing, Integration testing and support UAT




Experience: 8+ years in Confluent Kafka & Java SpringBoot Microservice, integration development with Agile/DevOps experience.