Senior Java Developer

Pay

On application

Type

Contract

Sector

IT & Internet

Closes

in 5 days

Recruiter

Mediro ICT · All jobs at Mediro ICT

About the role

Our client in Pretoria is recruiting for a Senior Java Developer to join their team.

• Support existing and develop new functionality and components.
• Understand existing product and domain elements and work with business analysts to refine and implement new requirements.
• Refactor and improve the code to keep the product maintainable and adaptable to new requirements.
• Work effectively in a team environment and follow/develop product software development processes and standards.
• Evaluate and improve application performance and high availability features.
• Create unit and integrated system tests to show that the developed functionality works as intended.
• Do root cause analysis on bugs to find and fix the cause of a problem in an integrated system.
• Build and deploy the system on an application server.
• Incorporate the work done by other developers and do whatever is necessary to get the system to work again with the changes, including debugging other people’s code, making changes to test data, etc.

What they're looking for

Relevant tertiary qualification in Engineering or Computer Science and/or Matric, with 8-10 years of experience, of which 5 years must be as a senior developer as part of a team in a software development environment.

A strong knowledge of Java is essential.

Experience in JavaScript or TypeScript is preferred.

Ability to work in a team environment: Follow/provide mentorship.

A good understanding of the SDLC process, tools and techniques specifically as applied to software development methodology.

Experience with team development tools: Use of source control applications (preferably Git).

Experience with the following technologies:

• Java EE (J2EE) server-side technologies
• Java 8 and above (Java 17 - preferable)
• JPA /Hibernate
• Experience with an application server/container (Karaf - preferable)
• Build tools (i.e. Maven, GIT, Jenkins)
• SQL and experience with a relational database (Apache Derby)
• ReactJS
• Bootstrap, CSS3, HTML5
• REST/SOAP

Ability to deliver production-quality software by, e.g. paying attention to detail, doing extensive unit testing and supporting quality testing phases

Nice to have:

Experience with financial systems

Knowledge and/or experience of the following would be a plus:

• Continuous integration (Hudson, Bamboo or Jenkins)
• SoapUI
• Integration experience (Web services, JMS)
• JAXB and XML Schema
• Docker
• Use of a UML tool for documentation
• KARAF/OSGi
• Apache Blaze DS
• JavaScript or TypeScript
• Webpack/NPM/Yarn
• Jest
• Spring
• Thymeleaf

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