KAFKA Developer

Lanham, MD

Full Time

TRI-IRS-MEF-07302026-0001

Experienced

To be considered for work, A CANDIDATE MUST BE EITHER A U.S. CITIZEN OR A PERMANENT RESIDENT ALIEN (no H-1 B visa holders) with three or more years of U.S. residency as a Permanent Resident Alien.

ACTIVE IRS MBI IS REQUIRED TO BE SUBMITTED FOR CONSIDERATION FOR THIS 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.

Primary Duties:

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%

Required Skills/Level of Experience:

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

Preferred Skills:

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

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