Java Team Lead - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 25-05-2020 2:18:16 PM
20-07-2020 2:18:16 PM
An investment organisation focused on technology solutions for the gaming industry, have an exciting career opportunity for a Java Team Lead to join their team in Cape Town. They are looking for a Java Team Lead to lead one of their scrum development teams. If you have experience as a team leader in agile software development, with a long history of Java development, then this job could be perfect for you!

Your key job responsibilities as the Java Team Lead in Cape Town will include:

- Line management of an agile team of developers and QAs
- Regular one to ones, career development, and performance reviews. This includes training and mentorship of team members
- Perform the duties of a scrum master: liaise with product management on the client side to gather project requirements; ensure that the team has enough stories to work on each sprint; facilitate scrum ceremonies; ensure that sprint work is carried out in a timely manner; remove impediments so that the team can work without interruptions
- Gather requirements regarding the infrastructure needs of the team and ensure that the team has the required hardware, software and skills development needed to be able to perform at an optimum level
- Continuously keep up-to-date with the latest technology trends and engage in research and development activities to ensure that the team is using the most recent and relevant tools for the job
- Attend to admin duties relating to the proper functioning of the team
- Update project tickets in Jira and ensure that confluence pages are regularly revised
- Process - Continuous improvement of the team processes, quality of deliverables and technical standards. This includes enforcing good coding and QA practices
- Delivery - Ensure the team is delivering excellent quality solutions, reporting progress and improving delivery if necessary
- Hands on delivery - A proportion of your time will be spent contributing to the team's code base

Requirements for this Java Team Lead job in Cape Town:

- Working knowledge of the following technologies is a must: Java version 8+, Spring boot, SOAP/XML, JSON, Microservices, Kubernetes, Angular 2+, PHP, MySQL, Eclipse/IntelliJ Idea, GIT, Jira
- Experience as a team leader in agile software development, with a long history of Java development, is a must
- Must ideally have experience in the online betting / casino market
- A dependable person who delivers consistent quality
- Proactively seeks out areas of inefficiency within the scope of the role, taking action to make continuous improvements