Senior Java Developer

Description

Phithos is an IT Services and Solutions company building on data-centric technologies for Healthcare, Education, Financial Services and Social-Media industries. At Phithos, we believe in Research & Development, Innovation, large-scale meaningful solutions and Quality Service. We are headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa and have offshore delivery center in New Delhi, India from where we are servicing the customers in USA, UK, Africa & India.

We currently offer Permanent/Contract roles where candidates can:

• Work remotely or on-site in Johannesburg or Cape Town.
• Work remotely from Mumbai or Delhi.

Our roles are hybrid and work location can be discussed to find the most suitable conditions.

We are looking for a SENIOR JAVA DEVELOPER to work together with Business Analyst, UX & Content Teams, System Architects and Managers to understand the overall business needs and requirements, as well as work with Agile design methodology to develop high quality source code. The Senior Java Developer will support the projects throughout the project life-cycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release and post release support. The Senior Java Developer in the Digital Channels area must be technically able support and maintain the deployed applications on dev, test and production environments.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

• Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency
• Perform accurate development estimation
• Produce technical specifications and designs
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work under minimum supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Can help with quality assurance and provide comments
• Present to senior stakeholders
• Offer support and guidance to peers
• Perform analysis at a strategic level and understand principles of business, technical and enterprise architecture

Education and Experience

Minimum

• IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar) and formal Java qualifications.
• At least 6 years Java systems development experience
• Proven Java EE knowledge and experience
• At least Angular 2 (or higher) Framework experience
• Experience with SOAP and REST services
• Unit testing and mocking frameworks
• Source control, experience with GIT
• Experience with industry standard Application Servers (preferably WebLogic)
• Knowledge of OO design principles and development pattern
• Understanding and application of Agile Methodology, including Continuous Integration and Test-Driven Development

Preferred

• Spring Framework
• ORM/Hibernate/JPA experience
• JMS, Tibco EMS experience
• Oracle and PL/SQL knowledge
• SOAP and REST (XML/JSON)
• Presentation layer development (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, GWT, Spring MVC)
• Experience with Business Rules Management Frameworks
• Experience using formal modelling languages (UML, etc.) and modelling tools (Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm etc.)

Advantageous

• Honours degree
• DevOps/Continuous integration
• Exposure to the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo and Bitbucket)