There is an opportunity in Cape Town for a Senior Java Developer who is comfortable working with C++ components. candidate will be working as part of a highly skilled dynamic team that build and support applications in a technically exciting and challenging industry. The candidate will be expected to design, develop, test, document and support applications written in Java as well as a few applications in C++ running on Linux.

Requirements:
• 5+ year’s recent development experience.
• Formal Qualification
• Strong OO development skills in core Java
• Multithreaded, stand-alone server application development
• 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:
• Java Server Pages (JSP)
• Java ME
• FireFly, Glassfish, Spring, karaf or OSGI framework.
• Design patterns
• Communications protocols
• Test driven development (TDD)
• Linux
• C++, Delphi, PHP or other language experience.
• Strong OO development skills using C++ (not C or C#).
• Experience with CMAKE
• Understanding and practical use of the C++ standard template library.
• Strong, practical, Linux skills (Red Hat and/or Centos is advantageous)
• Development of multi-threaded, server side applications, using C++
• Inter-process communications using sockets (TCP/IP & Unix sockets)