JAVA Developer - Health Systems at Discovery Limited

Purpose

• Successful candidates will work closely with a passionate development team to design, develop and maintain Java based integration solutions for our dynamic multi-national company that sets the benchmark in its industry.
• We require strong Java developers who understand and can apply the fundamentals of SOA- and OO principles and methodologies, and have experience considering non-functional requirements including security and performance considerations.
• Applicants must be team players with the ability to work with both vertical and horizontal colleagues in formal and informal settings.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Develop, test, deploy and maintain high quality applications
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing applications
• Assist with the production of technical specifications and designs
• Promote new technologies and share knowledge within the team
• Recommend improvements to development processes, contribute to implementation plans, and assist in rollout
• Perform code reviews

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Passionate about technology and development
• Results oriented with the ability to work under pressure and cope with multiple concurrent projects with changing priorities and deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to deal with complexity and shift / translate between detailed- and high level requirements
• Self-starter who takes ownership and accountability, and is able to work with minimal supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Education
Minimum:

• Grade 12 and formal Java qualifications Preferred:
• IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar)

Experience
Minimum:

• 3 years Java systems development experience
• Java EE
• Spring framework / Spring Boot knowledge and experience
• Extensive Web service experience (RESTful & SOAP)
• XML, XSD, JSON, Swagger
• Enterprise security concepts e.g., SSL, TLS, OAUTH etc.
• Unit testing and mocking frameworks e.g. Junit & Mockito
• Experience with industry standard Application Servers (preferably WebLogic) Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns Preferred:
• 3+ years Java systems development experience
• Spring/Spring Boot
• Maven
• Hibernate/JPA experience
• JMS, Tibco EMS experience
• Oracle and PL/SQL knowledge
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Formal modelling languages (UML, etc.) and modelling tools (Enterprise Architect)
• Agile principles and methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development
• Atlassian product stack (BitBucket, JIRA, Confluence etc.)
• Scaling experience e.g. load balancing, clustering, concurrency, etc.