About the Company

RS2 offers secure payment services, payments 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 a software of choice by many of the world’s leading and most innovative banks and financial institutions.

About the Role

As a Senior Application Software Developer you will be responsible for developing and maintaining first class solutions for tier 1 financial institutions around the world. Forming part of a large team of experienced professionals you will be participating in different areas of the software development life-cycle and specialize in a range of different areas from design, development, maintenance and quality assurance of our products and services. Liaising with different parts of the business, you will be dealing with Business Analysts, Project Managers and other internal functions in order to fulfil client requirements.

Responsibilities

Participate in the entire application life cycle, focusing on coding and debugging
Build and perform unit tests
Build reusable code and libraries for future use
Clearly document solutions for all stakeholders
Optimization of applications for maximum performance and scalability
Collaborate with other team members to establish objectives and design functional requirements
Analyse, Design and Document new requirements
Perform under pressure and have the ability to deal with and solve problems quickly and accurately with limited supervision
Taking lead on projects when needed

Qualifications

Be in possession of a degree in computing or a similar recognized qualification
Minimum of 4 years of work experience in software development

Required Skills

Have good knowledge of software development life-cycle processes
Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure) and containerisation (e.g. Docker)
Experience with working on multiple Java frameworks and have a good knowledge of the different frameworks available particularly in Spring and Spring Boot
Has experience working with PL/SQL and SQL
Has experience working with RDBMS Databases, ideally, Oracle and PostgreSQL. (Knowledge of NoSQL databases will be considered an asset)
Strong understanding of distributed systems such as Kafka
Must be meticulous, methodical and accurate in the completion of tasks
Experience in designing and developing scalable software
Able to work in a team
Have strong organisational and time management skills, able to prioritize across different tasks and meet deadlines as per business exigencies
Strong communication and writing skills in English

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Senior Application Software Developer

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