Senior Java Engineer

HR Talent Partner SA; Somerset West; Hybrid; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

An international software development company is seeking a Senior Java Engineer to join their team. This role offers flexibility with remote/hybrid work, requiring weekly in-office visits in Somerset West, Pretoria, or Johannesburg. The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of experience in Java development, with a strong focus on testing and code quality, as well as experience with AWS infrastructure. This is a full-time, permanent position with excellent salary and career advancement opportunities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of experience in a similar position.
• Strong knowledge of testing and code quality practices.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and observability.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend systems using modern Java stack.
• Optimize and refactor observability stack in AWS.
• Implement asynchronous communication between services.

Skills

Java 21

Spring Boot 3

OpenAPI Specification 3

JUnit 5

Testcontainers

ArchUnit

Lombok

Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Cassandra

Job description

Senior Java Engineer (Remote) required in Somerset West.

A well establish international software development company is looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join their team on full time permanent basis.

This is a remote / hybrid role, with a requirement to be in either the Somerset West, Pretoria, or Johannesburg offices once a week.

Excellent salary on offer plus internal career advancement opportunities.

Tech Stack / Environment:

Our backend systems are built using a modern, robust Java stack. We follow strong architectural and testing principles, with full deployment on AWS infrastructure.

Requirements:

• Minimum 6 years of experience in a similar position
• Languages & Frameworks:
  • Java 21
  • Spring Boot 3
  • OpenAPI Specification 3
• Testing & Code Quality:
  • JUnit 5 (unit + integration tests)
  • Testcontainers
  • ArchUnit
  • Lombok
• Infrastructure & Observability:
  • Deployed on Kubernetes clusters running in AWS
  • Micrometer + Prometheus + Grafana (metrics and dashboards)
  • Slf4j logging with aggregation and visualisation via Kibana
  • While the lift-and-shift migration to AWS is complete, further optimisation and refactoring of our observability stack is planned to leverage native AWS services were beneficial
• Messaging & Data:
  • Apache Kafka for asynchronous communication between services
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL and Cassandra as our main database technologies

Applying for this position:

• If you are interested in this great career opportunity and qualify, please send your CV.