Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in innovative technology? Join us and unleash your potential working in an Agile environment while modernizing enterprise systems and applications needed to support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosp
!!! Long-Term Government Contract for Leading Edge Technologies !!!
As a Java and Kafka Engineer, you will serve as 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. Requriements include:
Requirements
Required:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation, criteria include but are not limited to:
- 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud
- 1 year check for illegal drug use
- 3 year check for felony convictions
- 5+ 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.
- Professional Experience: at least seven (7) years related technical experience, with software design, development and implementation
- College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline.
- Equivalent professional experience will be considered in lieu of degree
Desired:
- Direct experience with Confluent Kafka.
- Experience with other NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra) or in-memory data stores (e.g., Redis).
- A strong understanding of data governance and data quality principles in an event-driven context.
- DevOps experience/CI/CD pipeline.
Benefits
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Top Skills
What We Do
Passion and Purpose. We are a start-up borne out of a group of architects and engineers providing solutions that transform with digital breakthroughs.
We Partner - Partnership to us means being all in - on the ground, in the weeds, producing and delivering mission solutions.
We Innovate - driving digital innovation and experimentation to improve decision services for the American people.
We Engage – co-creating to deliver HCD (human centered design) to solve tour customers digital challenges.
We Deliver – and take pride and accountability in everything we do.
We are Ignite IT.
Ignite IT deploys teams that are customer-obsessed, delivering a CX (Customer Experience) renaissance to our Private and Public Sector customers. We combine Commercial BX (Business of Experience) with customer delivery experts to benefit agencies to innovate and improve services and launch new digital solutions. We have built a company foundation dependent on each of our employee’s success, and provide a healthy, engaging, community where learning and knowledge sharing are encouraged. We empower our employees to be bold, continually innovate and propose new ideas to improve processes and services. We engage daily on work that touches millions of people, always focusing on positive impacts and results.
We enable mission services that enable Enterprise companies to succeed in digital transformation, protect Border Agents, deploy the Army Reserve and National Guard, providing decision dominance to make America safer. We apply these digital services across the Private and Public Sectors to include include HHS, DHS, AOUSC and Army. We aim to continually raise the bar for our customers to expect more from their digital services. For more information, visit www.igniteitservices.com
