Intermediate Java Developer

Swan IT is searching for an Intermediate Java Developer for a client in Cape Town. The ideal candidate must be motivated to deeply understand and effectively address client requirements, while consistently delivering high-quality, robust software solutions that they are proud to maintain.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend applications to meet business requirements.


• Design, develop, and maintain APIs to facilitate seamless integration with other systems.


• Design and maintain underlying database objects to ensure data integrity and performance.


• Develop with support and reusability in mind to promote efficiency and maintainability.


• Support quality assurance efforts, including contributing to automated testing and providing support for user testing as needed.


• Actively participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and knowledge sharing.


• Keep improving processes, with a focus on application testing, deployment, performance, and monitoring.


• Understand and analyze user requests to provide effective solutions.


• Help with day-to-day queries from clients and Pepkor IT teams, providing timely and helpful assistance.


• Share production standby responsibilities with the rest of the team to ensure system reliability.


• Participate during all stages of the software development life-cycle, contributing to planning, execution, and delivery.


• Guide, mentor, and share experience with teammates to foster a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.

Requirements:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field


• 3–5+ years’ experience using Java, preferably with the Spring framework (Spring Integration, Spring Data REST, and Spring Cloud Stream)


• Proven experience designing and developing RESTful APIs


• Solid understanding of message brokers, particularly RabbitMQ


• Experience development using Spring Boot, Java 8 (incl working with Streams and Java Generics), JUnit, Maven,  Message Queues (AMQP), and JPA/Hibernate