KAFKA Developer

TriTech Enterprise Systems, Inc. • Lanham, MD

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About The Position

TriTech Enterprise Systems (TriTech) is seeking a 'Kafka Developer' to support a federal project. This developer will design and develop IRS/MeF Mod microservices using Spring Boot, Kafka, JAX-RS services, JPA/Hibernate, and Red Hat OpenShift. In addition, this candidate will perform unit and integration testing, participate in code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, and maintain Java components as needed.

The IRS/MeF is a platform for electronically filing returns with the IRS. It provides SOA-based web services that filers use to submit returns and provides web applications for IRS users to work with the returns. MeF validates filed returns, determines their disposition, and interfaces with other IRS systems to process them downstream. IBM has developed and enhanced MeF since 2001.

Requirements

• Java/JEE microservices development with Spring REST and Spring Boot – 8 years
• Integrate KAFKA for Event Driven Workflows – 4 years
• KAFKA Administration – 2 years
• Development using AI Tools such as Claude Code – 1 year
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - 4 years
• Develop automated unit tests with JUnit – 4 years
• Eclipse or Spring Tool Suite or JBoss Studio – 4 years
• GitHub, JIRA – 3 years
• Oracle Exadata – 2 years

Nice To Haves

• CICD Pipeline using GitHub Actions
• Agile methodologies and working as Scrum Master
• Maven

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Java/JEE components using KAFKA, Spring REST Services, Spring Boot – 70%
• Perform unit and development-level integration testing as needed – 20%
• Perform code maintenance based on needs of IBM testing, customer testing, and production issues – 10%

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed