Senior Java Backend Engineer – Fintech, Growth & Impact

Placements24; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Professional development

Office in Sandton

Job summary

Placements24, a fintech company in Sandton, Gauteng, seeks a Senior Software Developer with strong Java expertise to design, build, and scale backend systems for high-performance financial products.

You will work in a fast-paced team applying Spring, microservices, and modern cloud practices to deliver robust services, APIs, and tests while mentoring juniors and contributing to architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Java backend development experience.
• Strong expertise in Java and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data).
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain robust backend services using Java and Spring Framework.
• Write clean, well-documented code and follow industry best practices.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects and engineers to define technical solutions.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

REST APIs

Microservices

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Hibernate

CI/CD

Git

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Tools

Maven

Gradle

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Git

Job description

Placements24, a fintech company in Sandton, Gauteng, seeks a Senior Software Developer with strong Java expertise to design, build, and scale backend systems for high-performance financial products.

You will work in a fast-paced team applying Spring, microservices, and modern cloud practices to deliver robust services, APIs, and tests while mentoring juniors and contributing to architectural decisions.