Job Title: Java Developer
Job Type: Freelance
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Work regime: Hybrid
Keywords: Java, Kafka, and Spring Boot
Sector: Our client stands as a globally renowned leader in financial messaging, spearheading safe and secure networks that enable seamless communication and transactions among financial institutions worldwide. Serving as the cornerstone of global financial telecommunication, it plays a pivotal role in facilitating the backbone of the industry's infrastructure.
Position Overview:
We are looking for a medium to senior Java developer to join the Observability and Analytics Cluster within the DevOps Engineering Services organisation in Belgium. The focus of this role is backend engineering with strong expertise in Kafka, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, and Helm. You will contribute to the evolution of our global Service Observability Platform by developing scalable services and data pipelines used across the organisation.
What you'll do:
As a Java engineer in this platform team, you will design, build, and maintain backend services that support high-volume telemetry workloads. You will collaborate with delivery teams, SRE engineers, architects, and platform owners across different time zones, driving engineering excellence and contributing to the platform's stability, performance, and resiliency.
What you bring:
Required experience includes medium to senior-level expertise in Java backend development, strong Spring Boot knowledge, hands-on experience with Kafka (including Kafka Streams, KSQLDB, and Kafka Connect), practical experience deploying applications on Kubernetes with Helm, familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git, solid containerization experience with Docker, and strong problem-solving skills related to distributed systems. You should also have experience operating within large on-premises infrastructures and be comfortable collaborating with remote teams.
Additional desirable skills include familiarity with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Elastic Agent, APM, ML, SIEM), knowledge of the OpenTelemetry standard, understanding of data engineering or ETL concepts, basic understanding of UML or C4 modeling, and foundational knowledge of machine learning concepts.
A little about us:
Innova Solutions is a diverse and award-winning global technology services partner. We provide our clients with strategic technology, talent, and business transformation solutions, enabling them to be leaders in their field.
* Founded in 1998, headquartered in Atlanta (Duluth), Georgia.
* Employs over 50,000 professionals worldwide, with annual revenue approaching $3.0B.
* Delivers strategic technology and business transformation solutions globally.
* Operates through global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe.
* Provides services for data center migration and workload development for cloud service providers.
Awardee of prestigious recognitions including:
* Women's Choice Awards - Best Companies to Work for Women & Millennials, 2024
* Forbes, America's Best Temporary Staffing and Best Professional Recruiting Firms, 2023
* American Best in Business, Globee Awards, Healthcare Vulnerability Technology Solutions, 2023
* Global Health & Pharma, Best Full Service Workforce Lifecycle Management Enterprise, 2023
* Received 3 SBU Leadership in Business Awards
* Stevie International Business Awards, Denials Remediation Healthcare Technology Solutions, 2023