Senior Software Engineer - JAVA

Golden Rule; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in South Africa is seeking a skilled backend developer to design and maintain application systems. The role involves developing backend applications, collaborating with front-end developers, and supporting legacy systems. Candidates should have strong debugging skills and a focus on writing clean, testable code.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain technical system requirements based on business needs.
• Develop backend applications based on approved specifications and prototypes.
• Develop, test, debug and maintain application code.
• Develop, update and maintain technical documentation.
• Integrate existing as well as new applications onto various platforms.
• Participate in the application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Write clean code with tests to develop functional backend applications.
• Integrate to application monitoring tool to troubleshoot applications.
• Continuously review and improve application performance.
• Support and improve legacy applications.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain technical system requirements based on business needs.
• Develop backend applications based on approved specifications and prototypes.
• Develop, test, debug and maintain application code.
• Develop, update and maintain technical documentation.
• Integrate existing as well as new applications onto Online, Mobile, Broad band Broadcast platforms.
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Write clean code with tests to develop functional backend applications in line with industry best practices and principles.
• Integrate to application monitoring tool to be able troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Continuously review and improve application performance.
• Support and improve legacy applications.
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.