Job Description

Closing Date: 2025-09-04
Job Type: Contract
Job Level: Senior
Experience: Between 7 - 10 Years
EE/AA: No
Summary
Our client, a Global Engineering Giant in Pretoria is looking for a Senior Full Stack Java Developer to join their team on a long term contract basis.
Must be willing and able to travel internationally if required.
Hybrid working model. Contract up to end of December 2028.
Description
You will develop and maintain a critical internal web application (Backend and Frontend).
Cloud, API, Java, Micro Services and other Serverless development, deployment, support and maintenance.
2nd and 3rd level support of the application.
Technical Lifecycle Management of the product.
Multi-tasking between different tasks, such as support tasks, development, investigations, etc.
Participate in daily stand-ups.
Assisting with business cases and technical user story input.
Assist with identification and management of risks.
Ensure that all processes are investigated and 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 compliance and 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 and Peer Reviews.
Perform demo's of user stories in Agile ceremonies.
Infrastructure / server monitoring and troubleshooting.
Analyse and fix Production Known Errors, troubleshooting issues, analysing logs, debugging.
System testing/parallel runs.
Ensure user sign-off.
Prepare Production deployment artefacts.
Prepare Production deployment plan documents.
Must be willing and able to travel internationally if required.
Troubleshooting.
Performing production and integration deployments.
Minimum Requirements
Degree in IT.
Qualification/Certification in backend development technologies.
8 to 10+ years Development Experience.
Agile working experience.
Java 1.7 and 8+ and 11 beneficial
API Development, Calling and creating REST and SOAP services, RESTful APIs, SoapUI
Angular, JavaScript, Typescript
Struts, Quarkus
HTML, CSS 2, CSS3
CDI
DB admin, design, development, stored procedures, patching
Event Driven Beans, JMS / JMS 2, MQS
Stored procedures, SQL with Oracle, Tables and Views, Postgres
Linux and VM setup and operation
Apache 2.4+, Weblogic 12.2+, Payara / Glassfish, Linux server admin
Maven multi module project setup and development
Git with Bitbucket, Code versioning
IntelliJ IDE
JSON
Jenkins with Build Pipelines
Experience in operational support on legacy systems with specific SLA agreements (timelines) based on the priority of the ticket.