Java Developer (Intermediate) at Santam Insurance

The incumbent will be responsible for development, testing, maintaining, and supporting software that meets business requirements on the commercial underwriting and claims applications.

Responsibility of the incumbent:

• Adheres to defined software development lifecycle and best practice (including code standards, code reviews, source control, etc.)
• Configure and develop full stack applications that meet business requirements (UI, business logic, rules, process flow, etc.)
• Build webservices to integrate systems.
• Generate test data to ensure developed software works according to requirements.
• Attention to non-functional requirements during software development (performance, load, response, etc.)
• Prepare and produce release documents for software migration to production.
• Support and maintain developed applications and services.
• Collaborate with teams across the SDLC, from requirements analysis, through to implementation in a self-managed team environment.
• Identify of potential risks/issues and give input into risk plan.
• Investigate and resolve root causes of incidents and problems.
• Provide support to the software development and project management teams.
• Participate in technical issue resolution meetings.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Relevant Tertiary IT qualification and/or qualification through experience
• Minimum of 3 years’ IT development experience across the systems development lifecycle
• Solid experience in J2EE

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Ability to work in a highly pressurized and dynamic environment.
• Team player that can provide support, share responsibilities and maintaining communication with fellow teammates.
• Investigation and analysis of information
• Competent in problem solving and troubleshooting.
• Ability to analyze data.
• Object oriented development (OOD)
• Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Behavioral-Driven Development (BDD)
• Frontend Frameworks such as ReactJS and Semantic-UI
• Redhat Wildfly application container or similar
• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
• EJB3
• Junit
• Apache Maven
• Spring framework and Spring Boot
• Spring Security
• Hibernate ORM framework
• JSON and XML
• REST and SOAP
• JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
• Web application development
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Design Patterns
• Atlassian Suite of products (e.g. Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence) would be advantageous.
• Agile methodology and tools like (Kanban, SCRUM)
• Knowledge to Kubernetes and Docker would be an added advantage.
• Detail oriented
• Identify, resolve, or escalating risks, issues, dependencies.
• Knowledge of the short-term insurance industry as an added advantage.

Knowledge and Skills

• Programme Development and specifications
• Project Management
• Programming Standards
• Business requirements