Senior Software Developer – Pepkor Vacancies

Job Overview

The Senior Software Developer plays a critical role in designing, building, and enhancing high-quality software solutions. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong collaboration skills, and the ability to lead by example while delivering resilient, scalable, and maintainable systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with team members to solve complex technical challenges within your area of expertise

• Demonstrate advanced proficiency in software engineering, applying depth and versatility across solutions

• Consistently deliver clean, efficient, and maintainable code aligned with best practices

• Proactively improve existing codebases, optimizing performance and reliability

• Take ownership of deployments, ensuring accuracy, stability, and smooth execution

• Share system knowledge to empower the team and promote a strong learning culture

• Design, implement, and maintain Disaster Recovery procedures to ensure system resilience

• Work effectively with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with broader business goals

• Mentor and coach junior developers, providing constructive feedback and supporting onboarding

• Escalate complex issues appropriately while independently resolving project or feature-level challenges

• Advocate for and apply non-functional best practices including performance, security, and accessibility

• Maintain effectiveness in ambiguous or complex situations, leveraging organizational resources as needed

• Improve system observability by enhancing alerts, monitoring, and runbooks

• Consistently deliver high-quality work on time while managing challenges and blockers effectively

Minimum Requirements

• 8–10 years of professional software development experience

Technical Skills

• Strong experience with Java Spring Boot and Java/J2EE

• Solid understanding of object-oriented design principles and patterns

• Proven experience developing RESTful web services

• Hands-on experience with microservices architecture and design

• Strong experience with relational database management systems

Advantageous Skills

• Experience with MSSQL and Oracle databases

• Knowledge of OAuth 2.0 authentication

• Experience with Docker and containerization

• Exposure to DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines

• Unit and integration testing experience

• Familiarity with RabbitMQ and Redis

• Experience with Azure Cloud Services

• Exposure to Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban

Competencies and Attributes

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

• Ability to lead technical initiatives and projects

• Effective communication of technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

• Ability to work calmly, methodically, and effectively under pressure