Java developer

Reference: PR -RN-1

Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients. We are looking for a Senior JAVA Developer to join our financial services client based in Johannesburg for a 6-months contract role. Duties & Responsibilities

What you will be doing: Apply critical thinking, design thinking, and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high-quality solutions. Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle. Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, and solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions. Quickly produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions. Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organization principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience. Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions. Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments). Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Grafana / New Relic. Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes. Debug existing source code and polish feature sets. Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services. Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines.

What we are looking for: Completed IT / BSc degree or other related fields. 3 years' development experience. Experience working in an agile environment. Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms. Experience with test-driven development and domain-driven design. Solid understanding of messaging protocols and web services like SOAP and REST. Experience with open-source relational databases. Experience with CI / CD tools (like Jenkins, Bamboo, TFS, Azure Devops) and Artifact Management (preferably Nexus). Ability to create and maintain sophisticated CI / CD pipelines.

Familiar with Containerisation technologies like: Docker & or orchestrators like Kubernetes. Java 8. Databases (Postgre SQL). Jira. Confluence. Git Hub. Springboot. Maven. Junit. Messaging (MQ / Kafka).

Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful. Most of our positions are remote; however, candidates should be residing within traveling distance as the circumstances of the opportunity can change.

Package & Remuneration

Monthly #J-18808-Ljbffr