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# Java Developer

- **Company:** Systems, Inc
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Databases, Continuous Integration, Identity and Access Management, IntelliJ IDEA, Java Database Connectivity, JSON, PostgreSQL, Apache Maven, Cisco Nexus Switches, Oracle SQL Developer, Redis, Aws Command Line Interface (CLI), Software Engineering, SonarQube, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Visual Studio Online, Spring Cloud, Spring-boot, Caching, Gitlab, Git, Cloudformation, Apache Kafka, Spring Batch, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/0b086d68-a9f8-4e8b-8c0a-33cd9d1d5281

## About the Role

1. 10+ years of SE Engineering and App Dev
 2. Java 21 with SpringBoot
 3. Kafka and CDC
 4. Aurora PostgreSQL
 5. AWS (MSK, RDS Aurora, EC2/ECS, S3)
 6. CI/CD (see complete list below)
Top 2 Soft Skills:

 1. Must be a self-driven engineer
 2. Strong disciplines around Software Development

## Description

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


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