Senior Java Developer at Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited

Role Purpose    

• The position will allow the successful candidate to apply their technical expertise by evaluating various patterns, utilizing existing and future integration mechanisms to create microservice-based applications using the latest security measures to secure them, and using cloud-based technologies from AWS to deploy and monitor these applications and maintain and upgrade existing ones ?
• The successful applicant will be responsible for designing and developing Java and Spring-based systems and UI-based applications using Angular

Requirements    

• A relevant IT degree or diploma. 
• 10+ years of experience. 
• 2 - 4 years of software development experience in a financial services environment. 
• Experience in an investment environment will be an advantage. 
• Experience in integrating different applications and technologies will be an advantage. 
• Additional knowledge of the FICA Act and CDD-related systems will be an added advantage. 

Advantage Skills

• Exposure to Docker/Kubernetes. 
• Experience with Micro-services. 
• Spring-Boot experience (General, Security & Authentication). 
• Experience with test automation. 
• AWS experience. 
• Knowledge of building and maintaining build pipelines using Docker, CloudFormation, or Terraform? 
• Experience setting up and using Postman, Insomnia, or SoapUI to create a suite of REST and SOAP services. 
• Data Dog experience. 
• Use of AI-assisted development tools and practices to enhance productivity, code quality, and solution design. 

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Technologies 
• HTML /CSS/ JavaScript. 
• Angular and Material for the front-end design of. 
• Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Security? Spring Data JPA, and Spring Data Mongo, Hibernate 
• JMS and Messaging technologies? IBM MQ, AWS SQS. 
• XML and JSON-related technologies. 
• Web services. REST and SOAP-based. 
• Ability to read UML and participate in design sessions. 
• Working knowledge of development design patterns. 
• Sound object-orientated analysis, design, and development skills and expertise. 
• Good understanding of agile development methodologies and practices. 
• MongoDB and NoSQL-based databases. 
• Good knowledge of Relational Database design and development (Oracle, PostgreSQL). 
• Gradle build tools 
• GIT, GitLab. 
• Unit Testing JUnit/Mockito, BDD (Cucumber/Karate). 
• Spring Security, OpenID Connect and OAuth2. 
• DataDog or similar monitoring tools. 
• Micrometer, Prometheus, and Application Monitoring and dashboards. 
• LDAP/AD for security. 
• Database migration tools like MongoCK and Flyway. 
• Nexus 
• SonarQube / Jacoco 
• Jira 

Competencies    

• A quick, enthusiastic, and steady learner with good communication skills. 
• Systematic and analytical way of working. 
• Structured, conscientious, and result-oriented approach to work. 
• Flexible attitude and ability to integrate into existing structures.? 
• A high degree of reliability, personal responsibility, and pro-activity.? 
• Calm, stress-resistant, open, and friendly personality. 
• Good sense of humor and excellent team spirit. 
• Keen interest in technology. 
• Willing to share, coach, and mentor team members and peers. 
• Willing to write new systems but also maintain and upgrade existing ones. 
• Willing to improve existing systems. 
• Good knowledge of writing integration tests and proper error-handling frameworks 
• Good knowledge of REST error codes and best practices and REST security 
• Willingness to work on older technology like IBM MQ and new ones in the AWS space. 
• Willingness to create Jira stories and assist the BAs in creating stories with more technical detail to help developers work on these stories. 
• Willingness to maintain and support apps in the Non-prod and Prod environments. 
• Must assist testers in setting up and maintaining automated test frameworks for all the supported applications. 
• Willingness to switch between 15 to 20 different applications. Must have the ability and interest to see how these various applications have been designed and work together. 
• IBM MQ queue setup knowledge will be an advantage. 
• Must be able to do a domain model design and map that to JPA. 

Closing Date    

• 2026/07/22