Job Description:

• The Price Publish team is responsible for processing and publishing price changes across Client. 
• The team's applications power pricing through REST APIs and Kafka-based event processing, ensuring accurate and timely price updates.
• The team is in the final phase of a major platform modernization (PDEv2), focused on improving scalability, throughput, and performance. 
• This contractor will contribute to both the new architecture and the existing production platform while helping deliver new business capabilities.
• This is a senior individual contributor role requiring the ability to quickly understand an established codebase, work independently, and collaborate effectively with engineering teams across the U.S. and India.

• Must be available to participate in meetings during Minneapolis (Central Time) business hours

• Senior-level experience developing enterprise applications using Java
• Professional experience with Kotlin or the ability to quickly become productive in Kotlin
• Strong experience building distributed backend services using Apache Kafka, including producer and consumer implementations
• Experience designing, developing, and supporting high-volume RESTful APIs
• Strong experience with relational databases such as Oracle and/or PostgreSQL
• Familiarity working with distributed NoSQL databases such as Cassandra
• Experience working within large, existing enterprise applications and contributing with minimal onboarding
• Ability to independently troubleshoot, develop, test, and deliver production-quality software
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a distributed Agile environment

• Experience with modular monorepo architectures
• Experience working in framework-light or framework-free Java applications
• Experience with RocksDB
• Experience supporting high-throughput, event-driven, or large-scale distributed systems
• Retail, pricing, or eCommerce platform experience

• Quickly become productive within the existing Price Publish platform
• Contribute to the continued development of the PDEv2 architecture
• Develop scalable backend services supporting high-volume price processing
• Build and enhance Kafka-based event processing solutions
• Design and maintain reliable REST APIs
• Collaborate effectively with engineers across U.S. and India-based teams
• Deliver high-quality, production-ready code with minimal supervision

• Strong recent Java backend development experience
• Hands-on Kafka experience in production environments
• Experience building scalable distributed systems and REST APIs
• The ability to independently contribute to complex enterprise applications
• Clear examples of architecture, design, or ownership responsibilities

• Ability to ramp up quickly on an existing system and contribute with minimal guidance
• Ability to work closely and collaborate effectively with the TII team
• Availability to work during Minneapolis hours (Central Time)
• Good database experience with Oracle Exadata, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra
• Senior-level development experience in Java and Kotlin,
• Senior-level experience in building and supporting REST APIs
• Senior-level experience with Kafka, including consumer and producer implementations
• Strong team collaboration and communication skills

• Experience with modular monorepo architecture
• Experience with RocksDB
• Experience working on framework-free codebases