Senior Java Backend Engineer (Spring Boot & Kafka)

$162k – $174k
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Westlake
|8 years of exp
|Contract

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Job Location

Westlake

Remote Work Policy

In office - WFH flexibility

Visa Sponsorship

Not Available

RelocationNot Allowed

Skills

Java

Spring

Oracle

Kafka

Spring Boot

About the job

Senior Java Backend Engineer (Spring Boot & Kafka) - for a leading US financial services firm.

Location: Hybrid, Westlake, TX (3 days in-office / 2 days remote)
Employment Type: Contract, 12 Months, C2C
Rate: $78 - $84/hr on C2C
Visa Status: USC, GC, H1B, TN, GC-EAD

Required Skills & Experience:

8+ years of core Java development (Java 17/21) using Spring Boot, Spring Data, and Spring Cloud.
Deep experience with event-driven architectures utilizing Apache Kafka (Producers, Consumers, Schema Registry).
Strong relational database skills in Oracle or PostgreSQL, including query tuning and indexing.
Hands-on experience with unit and integration testing via JUnit 5, Mockito, and Testcontainers.

Job Responsibilities:

Build resilient transactional banking APIs following domain-driven design (DDD) patterns.
Implement Kafka topic partitions, consumer groups, and dead-letter queues (DLQ) for asynchronous messaging.
Participate in in-person sprint planning and technical architecture whiteboarding sessions.