Java Backend Developer – Kafka / Microservices
Artech LLC · Posted Nov 4, 2026
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- On-site
- Contract · Senior
- $60–$75 per hour
- 6–8 years
Senior Java Microservices Developer supporting the Total Rewards portfolio, designing, developing, and modernizing enterprise APIs, event-driven services, and cloud-ready microservice solutions.
Compensation
Pay Rate: $60-75/hr. on W2 ONLY
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise applications using Java and Spring Boot.
- Build scalable microservices and REST APIs.
- Design and implement Kafka-based event-driven integrations, including producers, consumers, topics, and message processing.
- Develop reliable integrations between upstream and downstream applications.
- Troubleshoot applications, API, Kafka, and data-processing issues across environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science/relevant field or equivalent work experience
- Nice to have: Experience developing high-volume, event-driven applications
- Nice to have: Kafka consumer groups, partitioning, offset management, retries, and error handling
- Nice to have: Containerization and cloud technologies
- Nice to have: Kubernetes / OpenShift experience