Senior Java Developer at Tipps Focus

About the Job
Experienced Intermediate and Senior Java Developers needed in Cape Town. Great opportunity to work within a dynamic team and grow your skillset!
Duties:

• Support existing and develop new functionality and components.
• Understand existing product and domain elements and work with business analysts to refine and implement new requirements.
• Refactor and improve the code to keep the product maintainable and adaptable to new requirements.
• Evaluate and improve application performance, and high availability features.
• Create unit and integrated system tests to show that the developed functionality works as intended.
• Create technical documentation that explains how the various components of the system work and how to use them.
• Do root cause analysis on bugs to find and fix the cause of a problem in an integrated system.
• Build and deploy the system on an application server.
• Create and execute functional test scenarios (dev testing).
• Work effectively in a team environment, actively collaborating to improve software development processes and standards. 

Requirements:

• Tertiary qualification in Information Technology or Computer/Engineering Sciences.
• A strong knowledge of Java is essential.
• Minimum of 3 years relevant experience as a senior back-end developer in a multi-tiered Java application development.
• Experience in scripting languages (e.g. JavaScript, Angular, Python/Jython).
• Ability to work in a team environment and collaborate on a common (UML) design model.
• A thorough understanding of SDLC processes, tools and techniques

Skills and Knowledge Requirements:

• JEE (J2EE) server side technologies, SOAP and Services
• Spring framework
• JPA /Hibernate
• Maven
• Experience with an application server (IBM Websphere - preferable)
• Contact the job poster
• Job poster profile
• Cassandra Potgieter 2nd
• Senior Recruitment Consultant at Tipp Focus (Pty) Ltd