Pretoria: Senior Back-End Developer posted by Sabenza IT & Recruitment

We’re looking for a Senior Back-End Developer who loves writing clean code, solving difficult technical problems, and building scalable enterprise applications.

You’ll join an Agile team responsible for developing a platform that brings together critical financial products, vehicle data, APIs, and calculation services into one seamless ecosystem used across multiple business channels.

If Java is your language, APIs are your playground, and cloud technologies excite you, we’d love to meet you.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Designing and developing enterprise software applications
  
• Building scalable REST APIs
  
• Creating new features that users actually love
  
• Improving existing systems for better performance and reliability
  
• Reviewing code and maintaining engineering standards
  
• Troubleshooting production issues
  
• Supporting deployments and production releases
  
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines
  
• Writing technical documentation
  
• Mentoring developers
  
• Participating in Agile ceremonies
  
• Demonstrating completed work during sprint reviews
  
• Helping shape technical solutions and architecture
  
• Participating in standby support when required

Requirements

You’ll need experience with:

• Java (8, 11, 17+)
  
• React
  
• REST APIs & Web Services
  
• HTML, CSS & JavaScript
  
• SQL & NoSQL databases
  
• Git version control
  
• AWS
  
• CI/CD pipelines
  
• Agile software development
  
• Writing clean, maintainable, scalable code
  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  

Bonus Points If You Have

• Quarkus (Highly Advantageous)
  
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
  
• Design Patterns
  
• GitHub Actions
  
• GitHub Enterprise
  
• Docker
  
• Kubernetes
  
• Azure
  
• Microservices Architecture
  
• DevOps practices
  
• TypeScript
  
• Performance optimisation
  
• Application scalability
  
• Testing frameworks
  
• Secure software development
  
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
  
• A passion for learning new technologies
  

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (or similar)
  
• Minimum 5 years of software development experience
  
• Strong Java development background
  
• Agile working experience (Mandatory)
  
• Proven track record delivering successful software projects

Benefits

What You’ll Get

• Work on enterprise-scale global platforms
  
• Flexible hybrid working
  
• Flexible annual working hours
  
• Excellent work-life balance
  
• Modern cloud technologies and engineering practices
  
• Collaborate with international development teams
  
• Modern office environments
  
• Continuous learning opportunities
  
• Exposure to cutting-edge software engineering
  
• Agile-first culture