Senior System Engineer: Technical Lead (Remote, Java/Kafka)

ZipStaff Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance.

Dental Insurance.

Vision Insurance.

401(k) + 401(k) matching.

Paid time off.

Referral Program.

Job summary

ZipStaff is seeking a Sr System Engineer - Technical Lead in Washington, DC, primarily remote with mandatory in-person SAFe PI Planning. You will architect distributed systems, and lead design and deployment of high-throughput microservices in Java and Spring Boot, while mentoring engineers.

You will build Kafka pipelines, work with AWS, containers, IaC, and implement observability, security and code quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, IT or Engineering (or equivalent) and 10+ years of software engineering, including 8+ years of Java.
• 5+ years building enterprise microservices with Java, Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem.
• 3+ years as a hands-on Senior Technical Lead, Lead or Principal Engineer.
• Expertise with Apache Kafka, event-driven architecture, DDD and fault-tolerant integration patterns.
• Strong relational/NoSQL tuning, complex SQL and AWS core services.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation and deployment of resilient, high-throughput microservices and shared components in Java and Spring Boot.
• Build configuration-driven rules engines, common SDKs and shared libraries to standardize delivery.
• Develop Kafka producers, consumers and messaging pipelines with retries, circuit breakers and dead-letter queues.
• Design scalable relational and NoSQL data models and resolve database performance issues.
• Build containerized apps on AWS (Lambda, S3, EC2, API Gateway, SQS/SNS) with IaC and DevSecOps CI/CD.
• Implement distributed tracing, metrics, logging, secrets management and API security (OAuth2, JWT).
• Lead code reviews, troubleshoot complex defects and mentor engineers.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Distributed Systems

Kafka

AWS

Microservices

Architecture Leadership

Education

Bachelor's in CS, IT or Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CloudWatch

Job description

ZipStaff is seeking a Sr System Engineer - Technical Lead in Washington, DC, primarily remote with mandatory in-person SAFe PI Planning. You will architect distributed systems, and lead design and deployment of high-throughput microservices in Java and Spring Boot, while mentoring engineers.

You will build Kafka pipelines, work with AWS, containers, IaC, and implement observability, security and code quality.