Senior Java Developer
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Contract
1 hour ago
No H1B
Key skills
JavaMySQLSpringSpring BootSpringBootREST APIRESTfulCI/CD
About this role
Role Overview
- Building and supporting backend services
- Designing and developing backend services and APIs
- Building and maintaining RESTful interfaces
- Writing clean, structured, and maintainable code
- Troubleshooting and resolving production issues
- Enhancing and maintaining existing applications
- Refactoring code to improve performance and reliability
- Building and maintaining system integrations
- Working with relational databases (schema design, optimisation)
- Ensuring data integrity across systems
- Assisting with data-related troubleshooting
- Contributing to CI/CD pipelines and deployments
- Working closely with DevOps and infrastructure teams
- Participating in release planning
- Following structured engineering practices
- Participating in code reviews
- Following coding standards and best practices
- Supporting testing (unit & integration)
- Contributing to continuous improvement
Requirements
- 7+ years’ experience in Java backend development
- Strong experience with Spring Boot (or similar frameworks)
- Solid understanding of REST API design
- Strong relational database experience (e.g. MySQL)
- Good grasp of object-oriented design principles
- Experience working on live, production systems
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting ability
- Experience working with and improving existing codebases
- Understanding of performance optimisation
Tech Stack
- Java
- MySQL
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- SpringBoot