Senior Java Backend Engineer — Spring & APIs

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking an experienced back-end developer in Cape Town to design, implement, and maintain scalable Java-based services and APIs. You will work on RESTful interfaces, database objects, and messaging with RabbitMQ, while applying microservice principles.

You will mentor teammates, participate in code reviews, and contribute across all SDLC stages, including testing, deployment, and monitoring, in a collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Java and Spring framework.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs.
• Solid understanding of RabbitMQ and message brokers.
• Experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL relational databases.
• Proficiency with Docker container technology.
• Knowledge of microservice architecture and systems.
• Strong understanding of application architecture.

Responsibilities

• Understand and analyze user requests
• Design, develop and maintain back end applications
• Design, develop and maintain APIs
• Design and maintain underlying database objects
• Support automated testing and user testing when required
• Guide, mentor, and share your experience with teammates
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Participate during all stages of the software development life-cycle
• Keep improving processes (including testing, deployment, performance, and monitoring)
• Help with day-to-day queries from clients and teams
• Shared production standby responsibilities with rest of team
• Design and develop with support and reusability in mind

Skills

Java

Spring framework

RESTful API design

Microservices

Application architecture

Relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL

Tools

Docker

RabbitMQ

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Spring Data Rest

Spring Integration

Spring Cloud Stream

Job description

Boardroom Appointments is seeking an experienced back-end developer in Cape Town to design, implement, and maintain scalable Java-based services and APIs. You will work on RESTful interfaces, database objects, and messaging with RabbitMQ, while applying microservice principles.

You will mentor teammates, participate in code reviews, and contribute across all SDLC stages, including testing, deployment, and monitoring, in a collaborative team environment.