Are you ready to join a company that places value of efficient solutions? Are you a Java Guru? Check out the requirements below to see if you qualify for this exciting venture!

Our client is a technology solutions partner, with specialist services for Revenue and Customs Authorities. The knowledge gained over 20 years within this market, enables the team to leverage the technology platforms and components to the benefit of their customers, and the broader eco-system within other government departments and private sector companies.

Requirements:

  • Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology or Computer/Engineering Sciences or matric and relevant work experience
  • A strong knowledge of Java is essential.
  • 2-3 years relevant experience as an intermediary back-end developer as part of a team in a software development environment.
  • Experience in scripting languages is preferred (e.g. JavaScript, Angular, Python/Jython).
  • Ability to work in a team environment: Follow mentorship/provide team leader mentorship, collaborate on a common (UML) design model.
  • A good understanding of the SDLC process, tools and techniques specifically as applied to software development methodology.

Skills and Knowledge Requirements:

  • Experience with team development tools: Use of source control applications (preferably GIT); Use of a UML tool for documentation
  • Experience of the following technologies:
  • JEE (J2EE) server-side technologies
  • Spring framework (preferable)
  • JPA /Hibernate
  • Experience with an application server (IBM Websphere – preferable)
  • Integration experience (Web/RESTful services, JMS)
  • JAXB and XML Schema
  • Maven
  • SQL and experience with a relational database (i.e. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2)
  • SoapUI/Postman
  • Ability to deliver production quality software by e.g. paying attention to detail, do extensive unit testing and support quality testing phases.
  • Knowledge and experience of the following would be a plus:
  • Business process/workflow layers e.g. JBPM, BPEL (Activiti)
  • Rules engines (e.g. Drools)
  • Design patterns (Object Oriented, SOLID, GRASP)
  • Continuous integration (i.e. Jenkins, Bamboo, Docker.

Job Description:

  • 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.
  • Create technical documentation that explains how the various components of the system work and how to use them.
  • 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.
  • Create and execute functional test scenarios (dev testing).
  • 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.

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Desired Skills:

  • Java

Desired Work Experience:

  • 2 to 5 years

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