Java/Kafka Developer - 101871

Java/Kafka Developer 
Location: Ashburn, VA. 
Required Clearance: Public Trust (DHS Preferred)  

Since 1999, ITEC has been a powerhouse in supporting mission-critical programs for the DoD and Intelligence community, building a solid reputation along the way. At ITEC, we don’t just care for our employees—we champion them with competitive salaries, an outstanding employee care program, and a benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, and a 401k.

U.S. Citizenship Mandatory: Due to our US federal government contract, candidates for this position are required to be a US Citizen and will be subject to a background investigation. 

Job Description:

Our Java/Kafka Developer will serve as an Agile Scrum team member providing software development and maintenance for the delivery of releasable software in short sprint cycles. Responsible for activities associated with delivery of software solutions associated with customer-defined systems and software projects by working in close collaboration with software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Designing, developing, and implementing custom software and database application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight.
• Acting as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a do what it takes attitude to ensure product and team success.
• Providing improvements to the product(s) being supported.
• Actively participate in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases.
• Supporting release planning with conceptual design and development/refinement of software engineering guidelines.
• Analyzing complex project-related problems and creating innovative solutions involving, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools and solution components.
• Ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports.
• Providing mentoring to junior members of the team. 

Required Skills:

• Must be able to work onsite in Ashburn, VA a min of 1x per week.
• Bachelor Degree, 7+ years of professional experience in Java backend development.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying applications with Spring Boot.
• Deep, proven expertise with Apache Kafka, including both the Producer and Consumer APIs, Kafka Streams, and related concepts (e.g., topics, partitions, consumer groups, offsets).
• Strong experience implementing Kafka solutions using Spring framework. Proficiency with Kafka Schema Registry for schema management and evolution.
• Solid understanding of event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and microservices design patterns.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle) and ORM frameworks (e.g., Spring Data JPA, Hibernate).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and teamwork abilities.

ITEC is a wholly owned subsidiary of ManpowerGroup Public Sector.