Can you build a multi-site, redundant environment? Maintain integrity to multiple third party endpoints all in real time 24/7?
A leading Merchandising Company based in Cape Town is seeking a Java Developer with super skills to join their team.

Responsibilities:
• Develop and maintain large scale, low latency applications for financial and retail products.
• Give input for defining a cross company deployment strategy.
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code.
• Produce technical and user documentation

Key Competencies and Qualifications:
• BSc Computer Science degree (or equivalent) with at least five years of general development experience (three years exposure to financial/retail).
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to take responsibility.
• Ability to work within a team.
• Effective planning and organisational skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Deadline driven.
• Self-skilling and ambitious.
• Experience with Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban.
• Experience in a retail, payments or banking environment.
• Firm understanding of Object Orientated programming and design using common design patterns.
• Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework e.g. spring, JSF, etc.
• Understand full application life-cycle (web, Db, and application, front-end and 3rd party integration).
• Experience designing/implementing high performance Web services using SOA/REST.
• Experience with test-driven development and continuous integration.
• Experience with relational databases.
• Experience with noSQL (MongoDb, Cassandra, etc.) – nice to have.
• Ability to quickly learn and develop expertise in highly complex existing applications and architectures
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• BSc Computer Science degree (or equivalent) with at least five years of general development experience (three years exposure to financial/retail).