1722 Back End Developer (Focus: Java) Senior

SUMMARY:
Our client requires the services of a Back End Developer (Focus: Java) (Senior) with 8 years in professional software development, relevant degree in IT or Qualification/Certification in backend development technologies experience as well as working in an Agile environment, contract until December 2027 (Gauteng based)

POSITION INFO:
What will be your role and responsibilities?

• Develop and maintain a critical internal API services application used in the vehicle pricing and calculation processes
• Cloud, API, Java, Microservice and other Serverless development, deployment, support, and maintenance
• Meet with end users and gather requirements
• Participate in daily stand-ups
• Analyse and Implement new system requirements specifications
• Ensure that all processes are investigated / considered in obtaining the specifications of the user requirements.
• Propose and review system designs and evaluate alternatives
• Review and present proposals / system solutions to IT Project Lead, DevOps Team, QA Team, and Product Owner / Business team
• Develop systems solutions in line with IT Security standards and other compliance topics, quality standards and delivery requirements
• Develop code that is readable, extendable, re-usable, scalable, and optimized for performance
• Ensure that all implementations can be passed over to other developers, mid development, with minimum of handover.
• Ensure compliance & adherence to standards for audit adherence and quality assurance
• Actively participate and contribute to sprint planning, backlog refinement, story size estimation, sprint reviews and retrospectives
• Update user stories in Jira and documentation in Confluence
• Perform Code & Peer Reviews
• Perform demos of user stories in Agile ceremonies
• Analyse and fix Production Known Errors
• System testing/parallel runs
• User training
• Ensure user sign-off
• Prepare Production deployment artefacts
• Prepare Production deployment plan documents. Preparation of system/technical documentation (as per ISO standards)
• Preparation/Updating of user and operation manuals
• System implementation / deployment & release activities
• Production support & hyper-care after production deployments
• 2nd and 3rd level support of the system/product
• Technical Lifecycle Management of the product
• Website monitoring (advantageous)
• Site performance analysis (advantageous)

• Java 8, 11, 17+
• AWS
• RESTful services
• Git
• JEE 5 +
• CI / CD
• Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter

• Knowledge of design patterns
• OOP (Object Oriented Programming and Design)
• API Development, Calling and creating REST services, RESTful APIs
• Quarkus (highly advantageous)
• AWS and / or other cloud services and Serverless development technologies (highly advantageous)
• Terraform
• OpenAPI / Swagger
• DynamoDB
• Git / GitHub Enterprise
• GitHub actions
• Code quality with Sonar
• Nexus
• JSON
• OAUTH
• HTTP Authentication, and Encryption with SSL
• IntelliJ & Eclipse IDE
• Payara / Glassfish
• Maven multi module project setup and development
• Junit with unit and integration tests
• Integration with 3rd party systems and interfaces
• Linux & VM setup and operation
• Performing production and integration deployments
• Logging and tracking tickets to external support
• Troubleshooting deployments
• Debugging remote services
• DevOps principles and concepts
• Postman / SoapUI
• XML with Schema (XSD, XSLT and pure XML)
• JavaScript, Typescript, Node