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Senior Java Spring Boot Developer

CyberPro Consulting -
Cape Town, Western Cape 7100

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Job Details

R1 300 000 - R1 400 000 a year
4 days ago

Full Job Description

Job Information

Date Opened

07/14/2026

Job Type

Contract

Industry

Financial Services

Salary

1 300 000 - 1 400 000

City

Cape Town

State/Province

Western Cape

Country

South Africa

Zip/Postal Code

7100

Job Description

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Java Spring Boot Developer to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for designing, developing, and enhancing enterprise-grade applications. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering scalable, secure, and high-performance backend solutions while collaborating closely with architects, business analysts, DevOps engineers, and cross-functional teams.

This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about clean code, modern software engineering practices, cloud technologies, and API-driven development.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise applications using Java and Spring Boot.
Build and maintain secure, scalable RESTful APIs and microservices.
Develop cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services.
Apply software design patterns and object-oriented design principles to build maintainable and extensible applications.
Collaborate with solution architects to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Participate in system design sessions and technical discussions.
Conduct code reviews and mentor junior developers.
Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex production issues.
Ensure applications meet security, performance, scalability, and reliability standards.
Work closely with DevOps teams to support CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
Continuously improve development standards, coding practices, and engineering processes.

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
Minimum 7+ years of Java development experience.
Minimum 5+ years of experience developing applications using Spring Boot.
Proven experience designing and developing RESTful APIs.
Strong experience building Microservices architecture.
Experience working in Agile development environments.

Technical Skills

Core Technologies

Java 11/17+
Spring Boot
Spring Framework
Spring Security
Spring Data JPA
Hibernate
REST API Development
Microservices Architecture

Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Lambda
API Gateway
ECS/EKS
EC2
S3
RDS
CloudWatch
IAM

Software Design

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
SOLID Principles
Design Patterns (Factory, Strategy, Builder, Singleton, Observer, etc.)
Domain-Driven Design (advantageous)

Databases

PostgreSQL
Oracle
MySQL
SQL Server
NoSQL databases (MongoDB/DynamoDB advantageous)

Integration

REST APIs
JSON
Swagger/OpenAPI
API Security
OAuth2
JWT

DevOps & Tools

Git
Maven
Gradle
Jenkins
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD Pipelines
SonarQube

Testing

JUnit
Mockito
Integration Testing
Unit Testing
API Testing

Desired Experience

Experience delivering enterprise-scale applications.
Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
Experience with messaging platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ is advantageous.
Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools.
Experience with performance tuning and application optimization.
Exposure to secure software development practices.

Soft Skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Excellent com

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