Fullstack Java Developer (LifeRay) (Contract) - Gauteng/Hybrid - ISB4300849

Introduction

Our client requires the services of a Software Engineer (Senior) for a position based in Midrand/Menlyn/Rosslyn/Home Office rotation.

• Amazing brand with cutting-edge technology
• Excellent teams in Global team collaboration
• High work-life balance with Flexible hours
• Agile working environment

EXPERIENCE: 6-8 Years related working experience.

COMMENCEMENT: As soon as possible.

Duties & Responsibilities

ROLE:

• Develop and maintain a critical internal web application (Backend and Frontend) used in the vehicle dispatch and distribution/delivery management processes.
• Cloud, API, Java, Microservice and other Serverless development, deployment, support, and maintenance.
• Meet with end users and gather requirements.
• Participate in daily stand-ups.
• Analyse and implement new system requirements specifications.
• Ensure that all processes are investigated/considered in obtaining the specifications of the user requirements.
• Propose and review system designs and evaluate alternatives.
• Review and present proposals/system solutions to IT Project Lead, DevOps Team, QA Team, and Product Owner/Business team.
• Develop systems solutions in line with IT Security standards and other compliance topics, quality standards and delivery requirements.
• Develop code that is readable, extendable, re-usable, scalable, and optimized for performance.
• Ensure that all implementations can be passed over to other developers mid-development, with minimum of handover.
• Ensure compliance & adherence to standards for audit adherence and quality assurance.
• Actively participate and contribute to sprint planning, backlog refinement, story size estimation, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Update user stories in Jira and documentation in Confluence.
• Perform demos of user stories in Agile ceremonies.
• Analyse and fix Production Known Errors.
• System testing/parallel runs.
• User training.
• Prepare Production deployment plan documents and system/technical documentation (as per ISO standards).
• Prepare/Update user and operation manuals.
• System implementation/deployment & release activities.
• Production support & hyper-care after production deployments.
• 2nd and 3rd level support of the system/product.
• Technical Lifecycle Management of the product.
• Website monitoring (advantageous).
• Site performance analysis (advantageous).

Desired Experience & Qualification

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:

• Degree in IT or relevant experience.
• 5 to 8+ years’ Development Experience.
• Agile working experience (Mandatory).

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• LifeRay framework v7.06+ (Templates, structures, themes, Portlets with JSR 168/286).
• JAVA 8+.
• JAVA logging framework (Log4j, Jboss, SLF4J).
• Node.js.
• HTML 5.
• Angular JS, Angular 5+.
• CSS (SCSS).
• Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter.

ADVANTAGEOUS TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• At least one Relational Database experience (POSTGRES, SQL).
• At least one Document Database experience (MONGO, ELASTIC).
• Git.
• CI/CD.
• Experience with Java application servers (Glassfish).
• Jenkins.
• Beneficial: Confluence / Jira, HR Services, Recruitment & Selection.