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This is a subcontractor opportunity for a candidate who can demonstrate strong, current, and hands-on engineering expertise across the Java ecosystem. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute meaningfully from day one, working within a large-scale distributed services environment.\nRequirements TECHNICAL SKILLS Mandatory Strong Required Nice to Have OOP / Design Patterns Java (8+) Spring Boot Microservices Kafka OOP / Design Patterns REST APIs Distributed Systems Git / CI-CD Docker / Kubernetes Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) SQL / NoSQL Databases REQUIREMENTS\nMinimum 8 years of active, hands-on Java development - candidates must demonstrate current, working proficiency, not experience from several years ago.\nStrong, up-to-date expertise in Java OOP principles, concurrency, and modern Java features; recent and regular practice is essential.\nProven, current hands-on experience with Spring Boot - candidates must be able to build and discuss Spring Boot applications confidently during technical evaluation.\nReal-world coding experience in microservices architecture - candidates must be able to describe actual implementations and write microservices code; conceptual understanding alone is not sufficient.\nSolid practical knowledge of Apache Kafka in a production setting, including producing, consuming, and managing topics - basic or introductory exposure will not meet the requirement.\nExperience working in Agile / Scrum delivery environments.\nGood communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with onsite and distributed teams.\nBenefits RESPONSIBILITIES\nDesign, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Java and Spring Boot.\nBuild and evolve microservices within a distributed systems architecture.\nDevelop and maintain Kafka-based event-driven pipelines.\nConduct and participate in code reviews to uphold code quality standards.\nCollaborate with architects, product owners, and cross-functional teams to deliver features end-to-end.\n• Contribute to technical documentation, design decisions, and best practices. 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