Senior Software Developer (Java) at Clickatell

Purpose:

Are you interested in building products used by millions of people? Do you wish you could launch code daily? Are you looking to work on an enterprise grade transactions platform hosted in cloud environments?

You will be joining an agile team of developers who are passionate about the products they build. We enable our clients to seamlessly transact and engage with their customers (on a global scale via channels like WhatsApp, Google RCS, etc). Clickatell is looking for a talented and ambitious developers that are passionate about building high performance (low latency, high transaction volumes) across multiple platforms.

The role of our Champion:

• Work with an awesome geographically distributed team of engineers and product designers to implement the next generation of products and/or features
• Work independently and collaborate on projects developing applications from scratch
• Build applications that can scale (millions of transactions/requests per day)
• Develop software iteratively and deliver working code each iteration, including authoring relevant documentation and test cases
• Be responsible for:
• implementing, debugging and testing of new product features, or enhancements on existing features, or assisting customers and vendors with implementing and troubleshooting end-to-end solutions
• Implementing a test driven development using unit tests and integration tests in an agile environment
• sustaining implemented features once delivered into production, including maintenance and support
• accurate and detailed documentation of relevant design artefacts (use cases, user stories, sequence diagrams etc)
• working closely with key stakeholders in particular with team leads and technical managers
• Partake in discussion of architecture, design recommendations and implementations
• Adhere to policies and standards as applied by the team and directed by the technical manager
• Provide scheduled standby/on-call support of production software

Requirements
The capabilities of our Champion:

• Having worked in and has a deep level of understanding in the following:
• Java 8/11, Spring Boot, Tomcat, Gradle/Maven
• Apache Kafka, Redis, Drools
• Databases SQL language and scripting (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Hibernate)
• Unit Testing (Mockito), Integration Testing, and Continuous Delivery
• Containerization (Docker / other), Kubernetes or other container orchestration frameworks
• AWS (Amazon Web Services) or other cloud-based infrastructures & services
• End to end perspective on development tasks, ability to develop and troubleshoot both front-end and backend components.
• Has proven behavioural characteristics in the following:
• Assertiveness: ability to convince others of right course of action and to explain a point of view convincingly
• Verbal Communication: good interpersonal skills, verbal communication skills and able to communicate clearly
• Written Communication: ability to write clear and concise documents, etc.
• Customer Focus: identify and effectively respond to the diverse needs of development department’s customers
• Team Working: able to work reliably and responsibly with internal and external colleagues to achieve development and organisational goals as a member of a team
• Individual Working: able to work alone and to reliably and responsibly achieve development and organisational goals
• Work Style: Foresight, analysis and logic, systematic and orderly planning, attention to detail
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Mentoring and coaching skills

Our Champion's journey thus far:

• Computer Science degree or equivalent diploma from a reputable school (or 10+ years relevant experience if no degree)
• Has a proven track record of working in relevant software developer roles of 8 years or more
• Proven industry experience in Financial or banking, or telecommunications an advantage
• Process experience in
• Hybrid waterfall/agile environments
• Agile environments including attendant tools and steps
• Proven technology experience in
• high volumes transactional/low latency solutions
• multi-tiered, multi-threaded Java applications with a focus on high transaction/low latency communication tier
• integration with 3rd party platforms such as those belonging to telecommunications service providers and banks/financial institutions
• implementation of solutions as micro services, in the cloud an advantage
• incorporation and utilisation of native cloud services

Benefits
Why you will love being here:

• Competitive salary paid monthly
• Medical aid contributions
• Quarterly performance incentives
• Pension fund contribution
• Group life cover
• Communication allowances
• Undercover parking
• Half day off on your birthday
• 5 “personal” days leave a year, over and above your normal annual leave.
• Staff events, daily popcorn, snacks, cool offices. All the things that make Clickatell a fantastic place to work