Back-End Developer (G2113) 1880

JOB SUMMARY:
The Role:

We are looking for an experienced Back-end Developer for a fixed term contract for Pretoria.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain public facing web applications.
• API, Java development, deployments and support.
• Collaborate with the client's Central IT solution...
  
  

  JOB DESCRIPTION:
  

  The Role:

  We are looking for an experienced Back-end Developer for a fixed term contract for Pretoria.

   

  Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain public facing web applications.
  • API, Java development, deployments and support.
  • Collaborate with the client's Central IT solutions, Web Cloud Platform (WCP) and Web Content Management Platform (WCMP) (based on Adobe Experience Manager).
  • Decoupling websiteâ??s backend.
  • Migration of website functionality to Company's AWS Cloud. Hence, AWS Cloud and other Serverless development experience would be advantageous.
  • Meet with end users and gather requirements.
  • Participate in stand-upâ??s.
  • 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 demoâ??s 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.
  • Website monitoring (advantageous).
  • Site performance analysis (advantageous)

   

  Qualifications and Experience needed for the role:

  • Degree in IT or relevant experience
  • Qualification/Certification in development technologies.
  • 8 to 10+ yearsâ?? Development Experience
  • Agile working experience (Mandatory)

  Skills and Experience:

  Essential Skills Requirements:

  • Java 8+
  • JEE 7
  • API Development, Calling and creating REST services, RESTful APIs
  • Calling SOAP services
  • Java Logging frameworks
  • CI/CD
  • SQL with DB2, Postgres and Oracle

   

  Advantageous Skills Requirements:

  • Functional Java
  • JMS
  • Knowledge of design patterns, DAO pattern
  • Object oriented design
  • EJB
  • Postman / SoapUI
  • Maven multi module project setup and development
  • HTTP Authentication, and Encryption with SSL
  • HTTP Session management and persistence
  • IntelliJ Eclipse IDE
  • Git with Bitbucket, Code versioning (Git/SVN)
  • Jenkins with Build Pipelines
  • Code quality with Sonar
  • Nexus
  • Junit with unit and integration tests
  • Integration with 3rd party systems
  • Performing production and integration deployments
  • Logging and tracking tickets to external support
  • Troubleshooting deployments
  • Debugging remote services
  • Microservice Architecture
  • AWS cloud services and Serverless development technologies (highly advantageous)
  • Spring MVC (highly advantageous)
  • Spring Boot (highly advantageous)
  • Quarku (highly advantageous)
  • Docker (highly advantageous)
  • Kubernetes (advantageous)
  • Servlets Payara / Glassfish (advantageous)
  • JSON and XML with Schema (advantageous)
  • Knowledge of integration with AEM or other Web Content Management Platforms / Solutions (highly advantageous)
  • Frontend development technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, Angular (advantageous)
  • Knowledge of other programming languages and tools (advantageous)
  • Atlassian tools: Jira, Confluence
  • DevOps

   

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