Senior Java Developer / Senior Software Engineer

Title: Senior Java Developer / Senior Software Engineer

Address: Fort Worth, TX 76155 (3 Days Hybrid Role)

Duration: 6 months contract and Extendable

Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain Java-based Apache Flink streaming applications. Build Kafka/MSK event-driven pipelines using topics, partitions, consumer groups, schema registry, and event-driven design patterns. Develop Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, and GraphQL APIs for downstream application integration. Implement scalable, fault-tolerant, observable streaming applications using Flink state, checkpointing, and recovery patterns. Deploy and monitor services in cloud-native environments using CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS MSF/MSK, and observability tooling. Participate in architecture discussions, performance tuning, code reviews, and production-readiness planning. Collaborate with data engineers, architects, QA, DevOps, and client stakeholders to deliver reliable streaming and API services.

Required Skills & Qualifications: Java Engineering - 7 years professional Java development, including recent hands-on Java 8 or Java 11 work. Streaming Applications - 3 years building production or near-production streaming applications using Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, Spark Streaming, or equivalent. Apache Flink - Hands-on Flink DataStream API, state management, checkpointing, watermarks/windows, fault tolerance, and deployment patterns. Kafka / MSK - Hands-on topics, partitions, consumer groups, schema registry, producers/consumers, replay, and event-driven architecture. Spring Boot / APIs - Production Spring Boot microservices plus REST or GraphQL API development. Cloud deployment - Experience deploying services to AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, or comparable cloud-native platforms; AWS MSF/MSK preferred. Serialization/schema - Experience with Avro, Protobuf, JSON, schema evolution, or schema registry. DevOps - Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, code review, source control, and deployment automation. Observability - Observability Experience with logs, metrics, dashboards, alerting, traces, and production incident troubleshooting.

Preferred Skills: AWS Managed Service for Apache Flink / AWS MSF.AWS MSK.GraphQL / Apollo GraphQL.Flink SQL.Kafka Streams or other stream-processing frameworks. Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or equivalent observability tools. Security best practices for APIs, streaming, and cloud-native services. SaaS or multi-tenant architecture. High-volume, low-latency operational data systems. Airline, transportation, logistics, real-time operations, or mission-critical systems experience