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# Java Developer

- **Company:** STAFFWORXS LLC
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (Software Development), Linux, Distributed Systems, Java Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Github, IBM WebSphere MQ, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Mainframes, SQL Azure, Node.Js, OAuth, JSON Web Token, Azure Service Bus, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Spring-boot, SOAPAPI, Event Driven Architecture, Apache Kafka, Cosmos DB, Graphql, Domain Driven Development, Event Sourcing, Restful APIs, Terraform, Dynatrace, Jenkins, Confluent, Microservices, Control M
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/senior-java-developer-509974945

## About the Role

* 10+ years hands-on Java, Spring Boot & Microservices
 * Strong Kafka expertise - Producers/Consumers, Topics, Partitions, Consumer Groups, Kafka Streams, Schema Registry
 * Enterprise messaging: Kafka, Solace, IBM MQ, Azure Service Bus/Event Hubs
 * Event-Driven Architecture, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Saga, Pub/Sub, DLQ & Event Replay
 * REST/SOAP APIs, OAuth 2.0, JWT
 * Azure: AKS, Functions, Container Apps, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Storage
 * CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform
 * Azure SQL/Cosmos DB/PostgreSQL
 * Agile delivery and distributed systems experience

Preferred: Confluent, Solace Event Mesh, DDD, GraphQL, Dynatrace/Azure Monitor, Linux/Shell, TDD/BDD, Control-M, SFTP, Mainframe integration.

## Description

Seeking a Senior Java Developer with strong expertise in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, Azure, REST APIs, Node.js, and Python to build scalable, cloud-native, event-driven applications.


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