Senior Software Engineer – Real-Time Streaming (Kafka, Flink, Spring Boot)

About This Opportunity CTI Staffing is partnering with a leading transportation organization to find a Senior Software Engineer for real-time streaming systems, hybrid based in Fort Worth, TX. This team builds and operates real-time data pipelines that support mission-critical operational systems. You'll work on cloud-native streaming services that need to be fast, resilient, and observable, not experimental, but running in production at scale.

This is a strong fit for someone who wants to own real Flink and Kafka infrastructure rather than just touch it.

What You'll Do

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain Java-based Apache Flink streaming applications Build Kafka event-driven pipelines using topics, partitions, consumer groups, and schema registry Develop Spring Boot microservices and REST/GraphQL APIs for downstream integration Implement fault-tolerant, observable streaming applications using Flink state, checkpointing, and recovery patterns Deploy and monitor services in cloud-native environments using CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes Participate in architecture discussions, performance tuning, and code reviews Collaborate with data engineers, architects, QA, DevOps, and stakeholders to deliver reliable services Support production readiness planning and incident troubleshooting Requirements What You Bring Must-Have: 7+ years professional Java development, including recent hands-on Java 8+ or Java 11+ work 3+ years building production or near-production streaming applications using Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, Spark Streaming, or equivalent Hands-on Apache Flink experience with Data.

Stream API, state management, checkpointing, and fault tolerance Hands-on Kafka experience with topics, partitions, consumer groups, schema registry, and event-driven architecture Production Spring Boot microservices plus REST or GraphQL API development Experience deploying to AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, or comparable cloud-native platforms Experience with Avro, Protobuf, JSON, schema evolution, or schema registry Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, code review, and deployment automation Able to work onsite in Fort Worth, TX three days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) — required, not flexible Nice-to-Have: AWS Managed Service for Apache Flink and AWS MSK GraphQL / Apollo GraphQL Flink SQL Kafka Streams or other stream-processing frameworks Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud.

Watch, or equivalent observability tools Technical Environment: Java, Apache Flink, Kafka/MSK, Spring Boot, GraphQL, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD What Success Looks Like: Production Flink jobs running reliably with clean checkpointing and recovery Kafka pipelines governed by solid schema management practices APIs that downstream teams can integrate against without rework