Job Title: Senior Java Backend Developer
Location: 100% Remote, Canada
Experience: 7 to 10 Years
Employment Type: T4 Contract Rate: CAD $80 to $90 per Hour
Role Summary NearSource is seeking a Senior Java Backend Developer to contribute to a large-scale cloud-native platform for a Fortune 500 product company. This role requires strong expertise in backend engineering, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and real-time data streaming. The successful candidate will be expected to quickly onboard and deliver value within the first weeks of engagement while collaborating with global engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Java or Go.
- Architect and implement event-driven systems leveraging Apache Kafka and AWS streaming technologies.
- Build and optimize high-throughput data processing pipelines and asynchronous messaging workflows.
- Develop reliable distributed systems with strong focus on resiliency, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Implement and maintain cloud-native solutions on AWS services including DynamoDB, MSK/Kinesis, ECS/EKS, IAM, and S3.
- Design partitioning strategies, retention policies, access controls, and consumer architectures for Kafka-based platforms.
- Drive implementation of data streaming solutions supporting CDC patterns and event processing requirements.
- Apply distributed systems best practices including idempotency, retry mechanisms, eventual consistency, and fault tolerance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver production-ready software solutions.
- Troubleshoot, optimize, and improve platform performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Contribute effectively within an existing project environment and achieve rapid productivity during onboarding.
Must-Have Skills
- 7 to 10 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong backend development experience using Java with Spring Boot or Go with modern service frameworks.
- Producer and consumer APIs
- Partition design
- Retention management
- ACL configuration
- Kafka Admin Client
- DynamoDB
- MSK or Kinesis
- ECS or EKS
- IAM
- S3
- Strong experience building event-driven architectures and streaming platforms.
- Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC) patterns and asynchronous message processing.
- Strong understanding of delivery guarantees, including exactly-once and at-least-once processing semantics.
- Solid knowledge of distributed systems concepts including idempotency, retries with backoff, and eventual consistency.
- Proven ability to join active projects and contribute effectively within the first one to two weeks.
Nice-to-Have Ski