Java Developer (Hybrid Model)

Job Title : Senior API Developer (Spring Boot Microservices + Apigee/APIM)

Experience : 6+ Years

Employment Type : Contract

Role Level : Senior

Project : Leading South Africa Telecommunications Operator

Department : Application & Experience Engineering

Job Overview :

We are seeking a Senior API Developer with strong expertise in Spring Boot Microservices and API Gateway technologies (Apigee/Azure API Management) to design, develop, and manage secure, scalable APIs for enterprise applications and partner integrations.

The ideal candidate will build high-performance APIs exposing business insights, analytics, and AI/ML services while ensuring security, scalability, and reliability.

Mandatory Skills :

Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, Apigee or Azure API Management (APIM), OAuth2, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT, Docker, Kubernetes (AKS), API Security, API Gateway, Microservices Architecture, Kafka (Preferred).

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain secure RESTful APIs using Spring Boot Microservices.
• Build scalable microservices following best practices for resilience, performance, and maintainability.
• Configure and manage APIs using Apigee or Azure API Management (APIM), including authentication, rate limiting, traffic management, and analytics.
• Implement API security using OAuth2, OpenID Connect (OIDC), API Keys, and Mutual TLS.
• Collaborate with Full Stack, AI/ML, Solution Architecture, and Cybersecurity teams to deliver enterprise-grade integrations.
• Support external partner integrations and internal enterprise systems through well-designed API contracts.
• Optimize API performance, monitor usage, troubleshoot issues, and maintain API lifecycle, versioning, and documentation.

Required Skills :

• 6+ years of experience in Backend/API Development.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices Architecture.
• Expertise in Apigee or Azure API Management (APIM).
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, API versioning, and API lifecycle management.
• Experience implementing OAuth2, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT, API Security, and Authentication.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (AKS), and Cloud-native deployments.
• Familiarity with Kafka or other event-driven messaging platforms is a plus.
• Excellent understanding of enterprise integration patterns and scalable API design.

Good to Have :

• Experience with Azure Cloud.
• Telecom, Banking, FinTech, or other regulated industry experience.
• Certifications in Apigee, Microsoft Azure, or Microservices Architecture.

Responsibilities of a Senior Software Engineer (Backend):

• You will be a guide in the entire application lifecycle including research, design, development, testing (dev owns quality), along with continuous deployment and delivery
• Lead design with a major focus on best user experience, performance, scalability and future expansion
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills to bring in continuous improvements and implement best practices.
• You will apply the latest technology thinking from our tech radar, adopt best design practices to solve complex problems and ensure our product is the best in usability.
• You will work directly with the CEO and the cross functional product teams, align on the needs of the products and operations.
• You will analyze business, technology challenges and suggest solutions
• Build an “Awesome” team

This opportunity is for you if,

• You have 4-6 Years of work experience in building highly-interactive applications using Java, Spring MVC, Spring JMS, Spring JDBC, Spring IOC, Spring Boot, MySQL, MiBatis, ReactJS, Java Script, jQuery, AWS, JMS and have knowledge on wide range of web technologies, tools and Frameworks.
• You have experience in working with Restful webservices
• You have strong knowledge and understanding of design patterns and domain driven design
• You understand fundamental design principles behind building scalable, resilient, and maintainable applications 
• You have functional knowledge of inclusive design: accessibility, and related tooling
• You have consumer web development experience for high-traffic, public facing web applications
• You have knack for writing clean, readable, re-usable code
• You have good knowledge on TDD and CI/CD practices.
• You have experience in managing and publishing releases using Git branching and tools like NPM and YARN.
• You have penchant for learning
• You are a great analytical & logical thinker and someone who loves solving problems
• You are passionate, energetic, enthusiastic and a go-getter
• You are “ FUN @ Work “

 Hiring: Java Developer (Spring Boot, AWS, Microservices) 🚀

📍 Location: [Specify Location] | 💼 Experience: [4+] Years | 🏢 Full-time

We’re looking for a Java Developer to build scalable, cloud-based applications using Spring Boot, Microservices, and AWS. If you love coding, designing robust APIs, and working with cutting-edge tech, join us!

🔹 Must-Have: Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS

🔹 Good-to-Have: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD

Artwork Flow website: https://www.artworkflowhq.com/">https://www.artworkflowhq.com 

Bizongo: https://www.bizongo.com">https://www.bizongo.com 

Artwork Flow is the Global SAAS platform by Bizongo for Product Packaging Management and Label Proofing. It’s a cloud-based collaboration platform to review & approve creative packaging projects to accelerate new product launch.

We are helping brands across industries such as Food and Beverages, Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics, Personal Care, Chemicals, Consumer goods, and more.  Our capterra score of 4.5 is a testimony to our customer obsession.

We function as a startup within Bizongo and we are looking to onboard driven individuals for Product and Engineering, as we grow Artwork Flow into North America, Europe and other global markets.

We have a few of the best investors on board including the likes of Accel, Chiratae, B-Capital Group, IFC (World Bank group), CDC group and Schroeder Adveq

You’ll be a great fit if you:

• Strong proficiency in Java and building scalable enterprise applications
• Can think of architectural design at scale
• Love solving complex and challenging problems
• Have good knowledge of design and architectural patterns
• Thrive to implement Industry’s best practices and coding standards
• High obsession for Quality and Performance
• Good knowledge on performance optimization, SQL tuning, caching techniques
• Like to collaborate with people, share knowledge, learn from others and mentor juniors

Additional Perks - 

• Medical Insurance 
• Flexible Work hours 
• Casual Dress Code 
• Recreational Facility

Responsibilities : 

- Developer responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

- Experience as a Sun Certified Java Developer with proven hands-on Software Development experience. We use Java 8

- 4-10 years java development experience with JSE/JEE, Java-based Micro-services framework, and implementation, Spring framework, Hibernate framework, SQL, etc

- Hands-on experience on Spring boot & SPARK Microservices and OSGi specifications

- Strong knowledge of micro-service logging, monitoring, debugging, and testing

- Implementations experience of micro-service integration, packaging, building automation, and deployment

- At least two years experience in SOA & Microservices based process applications using BPM (Activiti/JBPM/Camunda)

- Object-Oriented Analysis and design using common design patterns.

- Insight of Java and JEE internals (Classloading, Memory Management, Transaction management, etc)

- Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL, and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)

- Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Wicket, GWT, Spring MVC, Spring Boot)

Qualifications: BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject and a minimum of 8 years of professional work experience in a mid-d or large corporate Information Technology environment. Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to keep multiple projects and client engagements active at once. Comfort with ambiguity and ability to navigate uncertainty.

Experience: 2 - 5 years

Talents from Product/eComm/Internet firms Only

Key Skills: Spring boot, RESTful web services, JSON, Servlet, JSP, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS Solr, Design Patterns, Java, Distributed systems, AWS

Looking for team members passionate about building platforms for next billion users and re-imagine the e-commerce for mobile-first users. You will be building solutions for personalization, logistics, search & discovery, payments, fraud prevention, and scalability that works and solve problems elegantly

Responsibilities:

• Develop server-side components, REST APIs

• Assume ownership for existing and new modules including design, development, and unit testing for enhancements of existing modules and development of new modules.

• Analyse problems logically and exercise sound judgment in defining, evaluating, and solving difficult technical and operational problems where solutions may be of a precedent-establishing nature.

• Lead the design and architectural improvements

• Participate and collaborate with team members in design discussions, determines areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, suggest enhancements to architecture, implement POCs, and enhance application.

• Reduce technical debt with quality coding

 
Requirements:

• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field) from IITs and Premier Engineering College.

• Excellent Object Orientation, coupled with excellent problem solving and debugging skills.

• Highly skilled at Java and related technologies, including Java Frameworks like Spring-boot or Drop wizard, RESTful web services, JSON, Servlet, JSP, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS Solr.

• Must have hands-on experience in building scalable and secure back end systems.

• Have hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency

• Good to have knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, deployment.

• Experience level: 2-5 years of software development experience in Java with web architecture and scalable design