Java Engineer — AI-Driven Backend & REST APIs

Accso - Accelerated Solutions GmbH; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible hours

Part-time option

Tech communities

Modern office

Job summary

Accso is a digital partner for sophisticated custom software solutions with an AI-native mindset. We work on challenging projects for large German and South African clients, designing and building robust backend services using Java, Spring, Kotlin, and modern tooling.

You will contribute to code reviews, performance tuning, and CI/CD practices in a collaborative, high-tech environment. We value proactive, pragmatic, team-oriented engineers with a degree in computer science and at least 5 years

Qualifications

• University degree in computer science or comparable discipline.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience with the listed technologies.
• Experience with agile methods such as Scrum or Design Thinking.

Responsibilities

• Solve challenging software engineering problems across diverse projects for German and South African clients.
• Design, develop and implement robust software solutions using AI-native development methods.
• Build backend services, REST APIs, and integration layers with OO design patterns.
• Contribute to code reviews, performance tuning and CI/CD practices.
• Deliver well-tested, readable code meeting internal and customer standards.

Skills

Java

JavaScript

Spring

Kotlin

Maven

Gradle

JUnit

Agile/Scrum

Design Thinking

Education

University degree in computer science

Job description

Accso is a digital partner for sophisticated custom software solutions with an AI-native mindset. We work on challenging projects for large German and South African clients, designing and building robust backend services using Java, Spring, Kotlin, and modern tooling.

You will contribute to code reviews, performance tuning, and CI/CD practices in a collaborative, high-tech environment. We value proactive, pragmatic, team-oriented engineers with a degree in computer science and at least 5 years