Cape Town: Senior JAVA Software Engineer- FULLY Remote – Permanent – (BackEnd Java and Springboot, Restful API) posted by Africonology
Posted on 2025-07-10 00:00:00
| Employer | Africonology |
|---|---|
| Category | Banking |
| Location | Western Cape / Cape Town |
Job Summary
A Global International Client of ours with the head office in New Zealand and staff located across South Africa, UK, India and Europe are seeking a Software Engineer (based in Cape Town) to work remotely) – BACK-END SERVICES USING JAVA and SPRING BOOT
They are looking for VERY STRONG TECHNICAL DEVELOPERS
If you have a recent IKM assessment that you have completed, please send that to me along with your application.
- The role is responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing scalable microservices while ensuring robustness, security, and scalability.
- The role includes working with various databases, integrating messaging systems, and ensuring high performance and observability.
Duties and Accountabilities:
- Develop and maintain highly scalable and robust back-end services using Java and Spring Boot.
- Design and implement RESTful APIs, ensuring their integration with various messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Work with relational (Postgres) and NoSQL databases (Cassandra, OpenSearch, Pinot), ensuring optimal performance through tuning and optimization.
- Utilize Kafka for data streaming and manage workflows using Apache Airflow.
- Implement unit and integration testing using JUnit/Mockito, TestContainers, and BDD frameworks.
- Ensure secure, scalable, and efficient microservices adhering to system design and architecture best practices.
- Implement observability with logging, tracing, and monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
- There is an expectation that the role accountabilities and duties will evolve over time. It may be necessary to review this job description through a consultative approach and make alterations in response to the changing nature of our work environment, including but not limited to technological requirements or statutory changes
Resources, Relationships and Authorities:
The role shall collaborate closely with:
- Engineering teams
- Marketing and sales teams
- Customer support teams
- Executive leadership
- External clients from time to time
- This position requires a high degree of autonomy and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- The role has no authority to incur routine expenditure, commit capital expenditure, approve loans, or extend credit without approval from the Managing Director or the Managing Director’s designated representative.
- The role has no authority to bind the Company to agreements with any other party without approval the Managing Director or the Managing Director’s designated representative.
Experience and Qualifications
- Extensive experience in back-end development with a strong focus on Java, including concurrency, collections, streams, and design patterns.
- Proficiency in Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Security, and Hibernate/JPA.
- In-depth knowledge of RESTful API design, microservices architecture, and containerized deployments using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with message-driven architectures and tools like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Strong understanding of relational databases (Postgres) and NoSQL databases (Cassandra, OpenSearch, Pinot).
- Proficiency with Git and experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI) and DevOps practices.
- Experience with designing systems that ensure at least one message delivery and idempotent data pipelines.
- Familiarity with telemetry tooling (Prometheus, Grafana)
- A positive professional approach and presentation.
- Well-developed organisation and time management skills.
- Accuracy and conciseness in written and verbal communications.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products
- Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary, agile teams.
- Strong communication skills, particularly in explaining complex technical solutions and trade-offs.
- Experience in iterative development and adapting to feedback quickly.
- Capacity for problem-solving and making informed decisions in a collaborative environment.
Desirable:
- Exposure to other programming languages such as Scala or Python.
- Experience with reactive programming and functional programming in Java.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and Docker containers for managing microservices.
- Experience with GitLab CI for continuous integration and deployment.
- Knowledge of event-driven architectures and distributed systems.
- Experience with Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect.
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