Intermediate Java Developer
Mama Money
Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Mama Money explicitly welcomes applicants based in South Africa. This role is suited for mid-level professionals. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
From a technical perspective, our back-end system deploys a service-oriented architecture, with services (some micro, some not so micro) interoperating through RESTful APIs and message queues, utilizing a technology stack of Java, Spring, Spring Boot and MariaDB (RDS), making use of a range of Amazon Web Services technologies.
You will be expected to collaborate with multiple development teams, front-end as well as back-end, and DevOps in the development, deployment, testing and maintenance of our systems.
From a process perspective,Mama Moneyhas been growing rapidly, which means that a big challenge for us is scaling our development platforms and practices to support concurrent development of features with multiple teams collaborating. To this end, we are adopting Agile principles using the Scrum framework. We'll require you to have a strong working understanding of the mechanics of Agile and Scrum, as well as what they are meant to achieve. You'll be participating in all facets of the process, including requirements analysis, creation of stories (we use Jira as our tool of choice), task breakdown and story point estimates.
What you'll do:
* Help us investigate and implement new processes, tools and technologies to help us grow
Help us investigate and implement new processes, tools and technologies to help us grow
* Be involved in the full SDLC of new features
Be involved in the full SDLC of new features
* Take responsibility for test automation (unit and integration) of new code
Take responsibility for test automation (unit and integration) of new code
* Help identify and address technical debt in existing codebases
Help identify and address technical debt in existing codebases
* Assist with deployment, QA and support
Assist with deployment, QA and support
* Ensure code quality through peer reviews, documentation and knowledge sharing
Ensure code quality through peer reviews, documentation and knowledge sharing
TECH STACK
Languages: Java
UI: Angular, JavaScript, Ionic, Firebase
Database: MariaDB
AWS Services: EC2, S3, API Gateway, Cognito, ECS
Automation: Java with REST Assured, Appium
Tools: Jira, Confluence, Postman, Dbeaver, GIT
* At least 5 years’ experience programming in Java within a financial services environment
At least 5 years’ experience programming in Java within a financial services environment
* The ability to work collaboratively in an ever-changing environment
The ability to work collaboratively in an ever-changing environment
Mama Moneyis an innovative, rapidly growing tech company and the world’s first Social Business Money Transfer Operator. An ethical fintech organisation, with a focus on financial inclusion, we are specifically focused on those who are often excluded and unable to take part in the financial landscape. WhileMama Moneyhas all the bells and whistles of a fintech startup - great offices and coffee, free lunch daily, flexible working hours - the business is underpinned by the incredible sentiment that we should leave greed behind us and use the resources we have to make the world a better place.Mama Moneyis profitable and growing steadily across Africa, Asia and European operations are in the offing, so you can rest assured that you are in secure hands with us!
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About Mama Money
Mama Money is a company in the Developer industry that hires remote workers from South Africa.