Senior Software Developer (Java) | Western Cape

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ENVIRONMENT: Our client is a leading South African Fintech company, driving a more inclusive and connected economy for over two decades. Through an extensive nationwide merchant network, they provide access to essential digital products and services — including airtime, electricity, bill payments, and other everyday transactions — helping bridge the gap for cash-based customers often excluded from traditional digital finance. The business has built deep roots in South Africa's informal retail sector, serving more than 25 million cash-based customers, and continues to expand through partnerships with major retail brands and corporates locally and internationally. They are looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer to join a well-established Fintech platform, supporting and enhancing a multi-faceted technology stack and its third-party integrations. You'll bring technical leadership, hands-on delivery, and cross-functional collaboration with Solutions Architects, QA, and data science teams.   DUTIES: •       Work seamlessly with the team to solve complex technical problems within your area of expertise. •       Demonstrate exceptional proficiency in your engineering discipline, bringing depth and versatility to your craft. •       Consistently write code recognised by peers as well-structured, efficient, and maintainable. •       Proactively enhance the areas of code you work on, leaving systems better than you found them by optimising existing implementations. •       Take responsibility for managing and executing deployments with precision and care. •       Share expertise on systems to empower the team and foster a learning culture. •       Develop and maintain robust Disaster Recovery procedures to ensure system resilience and reliability. •       Work confidently with cross-functional teams (e.g., Design, Legal, Data, Risk) to communicate the developer team's work and ensure alignment with broader organisational goals. •       Regularly mentor less experienced developers, providing constructive feedback on designs and technical approaches; support onboarding of new developers. •       Escalate issues beyond your team or individual work scope when necessary, ensuring successful resolution through appropriate channels. •       Demonstrate expertise in non-functional aspects like accessibility, performance, and security, and advocate for and teach these practices. •       Work effectively and confidently, maintaining persistence in the face of ambiguity or uncertainty. •       Actively improve system observability by identifying and addressing gaps in alerts and runbooks. •       Consistently deliver high-quality work, ensuring timely completion of tasks while maintaining resilience to tackle challenges and blockers.   REQUIREMENTS: Minimum Requirements •       8+ years' experience in software development. Technical Skills •       Java Spring Boot (Java\/J2EE). •       Sound knowledge of OO design principles and patterns. •       Experience in RESTful web services. •       Experience with microservices architecture and design. •       Experience with Relational DBMS. Advantageous Skills •       Java Spring Boot (Java\/J2EE), with experience in Spring Batch. •       OAuth 2.0 authentication. •       Docker. •       DevOps methodology, including CI\/CD pipelines (Azure & Kubernetes). •       Unit, integration, and load testing. •       RabbitMQ. •       Redis. •       Azure Cloud Services. •       Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban). •       Experience with SonarQube. •       Audit logging. •       Monitoring, system health checks, and metrics.