Our client; a top business platform that equips small business owners across Africa is looking to hire a senior fullstack software engineer in Cape town South Africa.
The experienced Senior FullStack Developer is to join and lead one of our scrum teams that is building nextgeneration business intelligence software for small businesses.
The ideal candidate will have substantial experience of leading teams developing frontends using React/JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3 & backend RESTful services in Java and Spring Boot and be very familiar with Scrum TDD and CI.
Responsibilities
- Design develop test and maintain backend RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot and frontends using React JavaScript HTML5 and CSS3.
- Help refine and adhere to our coding standards best practices and guidelines to ensure code quality and maintainability.
- Collaborate with product managers and other stakeholders to understand requirements and contribute to architectural discussions and design decisions.
- Champion TestDriven Development (TDD) principles writing unit tests and integration tests to ensure software robustness reliability and maintainability.
- Ensure your team follows our endtoend SDLC (based on scrum) and help drive efficiency and productivity by helping track appropriate metrics identifying areas for improvement and helping implement them.
- Contribute towards and guide your team in producing appropriate (pragmatic and concise) technical documentation.
- Help troubleshoot and resolve issues with production systems.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to less experienced developers fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth within the team.
- Ensure your team remains happy engaged and motivated.
Desired Experience and Qualifications
- You have accumulated considerable knowledge and experience of software development (frontend and backend) through a strong relevant engineering degree and at least 8 years of relevant working experience.
- You have 6 years of experience of Java development with Spring Boot and JPA.
- You have 2 years of experience of frontend development with React.
- You are wellversed with TDD unit testing and CI.
- You have worked as a member of a scrum team and you have a good working knowledge of the key principles of scrum and agile methodologies in general.
- You are intimately familiar with good development practices and principles such as SOLID DRY and design patterns.
- You have worked with both relational and NoSQL databases and have a good working knowledge of SQL.
- Familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes would be a distinct advantage but is not essential.