Application Developer – Backoffice Microservices

Company Profile

RS2 offers secure payment services, payment software and managed services to clients in over 35 countries. The company upholds the highest industry standards and RS2’s in-house designed payments solution is the software of choice by many of the world’s leading and most innovative banks and financial institutions.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Software Developer to join our Technical Team. The chosen candidate will be responsible for researching and building microservices using the best programming languages and frameworks to fulfil the requirements while keeping performance in mind.

Responsibilities

• Understand business and technical requirements for new or existing projects
• Ability to design, develop and implement scalable, elastic microservice based platforms
• Keep oneself up to date with the latest technologies
• Incite and lead team discussions and brainstorming sessions as required
• Mentor, guide, assist and share technical knowledge with team members as required
• Team up in cross-functional teams working together to meet the defined objective/goal

Requirements

• A University Degree in IT or related professional qualifications
• Minimum of 4 years work experience in Microservices development
• Proficiency in Java/J2EE development and experience with working on multiple Java frameworks (especially Spring Boot) or have a good knowledge of the different frameworks available
• Experience with RDBMS databases (mostly Oracle SQL and PostgreSQL)
• Experience in a banking / financial services company would be ideal but not a must
• Experience with message brokers (especially Kafka)

Plus points

• Experience with Oracle PL/SQL
• Experience with Cloud Platforms (ex. AWS / Azure)
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Ruby
• Familiar with the Agile Methodology
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines

Skills requirements

• Meticulous, methodical and accurate approach for the completion of tasks
• Able to work well in a team
• Strong organisational and time management skills, able to prioritize across different tasks to meet deadlines
• Strong analytical and reasoning abilities
• Good written and verbal communication skills