📍 Ashburn, VA (Hybrid - 1 to 2 days onsite / 3 to 4 days remote)
🇺🇸 Must be a U.S. Citizen and currently reside in the Metro Washington, D.C. area
We have an immediate opening for a Java Kafka Developer to join an Agile Scrum team supporting a federal program. This role focuses on backend development within an event-driven, microservices architecture, delivering releasable software in short sprint cycles.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement custom software and database applications across legacy and modernized systems
- Build and support event-driven, distributed systems using Kafka-based architectures
- Collaborate within Agile Scrum teams to deliver high-quality software in short sprint cycles
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, testing, demos, retrospectives, and releases
- Analyze complex technical challenges and develop scalable, innovative solutions
- Ensure product quality, timeliness, and performance standards
- Contribute to engineering standards and architectural best practices
- Mentor junior developers and support team growth
- U.S. Citizen able to pass a CBP background investigation:
- 3-year felony conviction check
- 1-year illegal drug use check
- 1-year misconduct check (e.g., theft or fraud)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 7+ years of professional software development experience
- 5+ years of Java backend development
- 3+ years of hands-on Spring Boot experience
- Deep expertise in Apache Kafka:
- Producer & Consumer APIs
- Kafka Streams
- Topics, partitions, consumer groups, offsets
- Schema Registry (schema evolution & governance)
- Strong experience implementing Kafka with Spring Framework
- Event-driven architecture and microservices design patterns
- Relational databases (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle)
- ORM frameworks (Spring Data JPA, Hibernate)
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and debugging skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
- Experience with Confluent Kafka
- NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra) or in-memory data stores (Redis)
- Data governance and data quality principles in event-driven systems
- Advanced DevOps / CI/CD automation experience
About the company
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Alluvial Concepts is an independent technology firm strengthened by strategic resourcing capabilities—helping organizations navigate business systems transformation, application modernization, and complex platform programs such as Workday and Epic with clarity, confidence, and continuity.
We help clients lead complex implementations by bringing the structure, insight, and alignment needed to make the work land. Partnering closely with both the client and their system integrator, we support decision-making, validate architectural choices, and ensure the program reflects how the organization truly operates—today and long after go-live. We provide experienced professionals who reinforce delivery and sustain momentum when teams need added capacity or specialized expertise.
Our team has spent decades leading and stabilizing mission-critical programs across commercial, state, and local sectors. We’ve worked as client leaders, SI architects, and post–go-live operators—a vantage point that allows us to bridge gaps, protect investments, and keep transformation grounded in the people who rely on it every day.
Like the rivers that shape new ground over time, we help organizations turn change into lasting progress.
Transformation should strengthen your organization, not overwhelm it.
Alluvial Concepts. Your partner in transformation