Senior Back-End Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
- R Undisclosed
- Contract Senior position
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Pretoria
- Posted 03 Aug 2026 by DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
- Expires in 30 days
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Job 2643325 - Ref 878000022595117
About the position
We're looking for a Senior Back-End Developer who loves writing clean code, solving difficult technical problems, and building scalable enterprise applications.
You'll join an Agile team responsible for developing a platform that brings together critical financial products, vehicle data, APIs, and calculation services into one seamless ecosystem used across multiple business channels.
If Java is your language, APIs are your playground, and cloud technologies excite you, we'd love to meet you.
You'll be responsible for:
- Designing and developing enterprise software applications
- Building scalable REST APIs
- Creating new features that users actually love
- Improving existing systems for better performance and reliability
- Reviewing code and maintaining engineering standards
- Troubleshooting production issues
- Supporting deployments and production releases
- Building and improving CI/CD pipelines
- Writing technical documentation
- Mentoring developers
- Participating in Agile ceremonies
- Demonstrating completed work during sprint reviews
- Helping shape technical solutions and architecture
- Participating in standby support when required
RequirementsYou'll need experience with:
- Java (8, 11, 17+)
- React
- REST APIs & Web Services
- HTML, CSS & JavaScript
- SQL & NoSQL databases
- Git version control
- AWS
- CI/CD pipelines
- Agile software development
- Writing clean, maintainable, scalable code
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Bonus Points If You Have
- Quarkus (Highly Advantageous)
- Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
- Design Patterns
- GitHub Actions
- GitHub Enterprise
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Azure
- Microservices Architecture
- DevOps practices
- TypeScript
- Performance optimisation
- Application scalability
- Testing frameworks
- Secure software development
- Experience working with cross-functional teams
- A passion for learning new technologies
What You'll Need
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or similar)
- Minimum 5 years of software development experience
- Strong Java development background
- Agile working experience (Mandatory)
- Proven track record delivering successful software projects
BenefitsWhat You'll Get
- Work on enterprise-scale global platforms
- Flexible hybrid working
- Flexible annual working hours
- Excellent work-life balance
- Modern cloud technologies and engineering practices
- Collaborate with international development teams
- Modern office environments
- Continuous learning opportunities
- Exposure to cutting-edge software engineering
- Agile-first culture
Desired Skills:
- java
- react
- javascript
- html
- CSS
- RESTful
Desired Qualification Level:
About The Employer:
DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
About the agency
Dedicated to the recruitment of IT professionals
Sabenza iT is a South African registered business focusing on Finance, Engineering, SAP and general iT recruitment. We have over 18 years' experience in recruiting in South Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and Asia and have worked with a number of large companies offering the best service. We at Sabenza iT understands the changing market and we mold our services around each of our client's needs to offer a personal service. Sabenza iT has forged strong relationships with both Clients and Consultants by ensuring both parties get the most out of every placement. Our Head Office is based in South Africa and we have a satellite office in the UK so that we can keep in contact with expats who may consider returning to South Africa and so that we can offer our services globally for Consultants looking to go to South Africa and Consultants who are looking for opportunities abroad.
We at Sabenza recognize the difference it makes to maintain good client relationships and we are keeping our client base niche and manageable in order to give the best service possible. We have gained a good reputation in the market place and have built a very large network and database of consultants that we draw from for each role. We are able to send applications within 24 hours of receiving a role profile or spec. We use one of the best Database software tools available to keep our database up to date and very fast to search.
Sabenza iT does not only use job-sites, we headhunt and we use our network to find our clients the right Candidates. We have a strong Facebook presence and we have over 12,000 LinkedIn connections.
For further information, please visit our website www.sabenzait.co.za or call me at any time on Tel: 0330040131.
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