Java Developer
Location: Cape Town CBD
Salary: Negotiable
 
Purpose of the Role:
The candidate will be expected to design, develop, test, document and support applications written in Java running on Linux for the mobile space. 
 
Requirements:
Experience:

• 3+ years recent development experience. Formal qualification is a plus.
• Exposure to the full software life cycle.
• Experience developing high performance, scalable, reliable applications.

Development Skills:

• Strong OO design and development skills in core Java.
• Exposure to and interest in modern design patterns.
• Good understanding of the Java thread model.
• Good understanding of the Java networking model.
• Extensive experience with the IoC pattern in general and the Springframework in particular, including its current ecosystem.
• Solid Java SDLC (develop, debug, test, package, publish, deploy) experience.
• Exposure to the agile methodology, including implementation of unit tests (JUnit, Mockito, PowerMockito) and continuous integration (Jenkins).
• Strong JVM configuration and tuning experience.
• Inter-process communications using TCP/IP sockets
• SQL, relational database design and JDBC, preferably with MySQL
• Strong JVM configuration and tuning experience
• Following skills are a bonus, not a requirement:
• Experience with microservices.
• Experience and interest in Vagrant and Docker.
• Java Server Pages (JSP)
• Java ME
• Application server experience (FireFly, Glassfish, Spring, karaf or OSGI framework).
• Design patterns
• Communications protocols
• Test driven development (TDD)
• Linux
• C++, Delphi, PHP or other language experience

System skills

• Linux (intermediate). Expert with bash scripting experience preferred.
• Version control systems - CVS/SVN/GIT (intermediate)
• CentOS/Fedora/RHEL (Bonus)
• High availability experience (Bonus)
• Redmine, Jira, trello or other issue tracking experience
• Bonus: Experience with AWS technologies