Discovery – Insure

Senior Full Stack Java Developer

About Discovery

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About Discovery Insure

Discovery Insure is committed to creating a nation of great drivers through our innovative Shared-value Insurance model. Discovery Insure is South Africa’s fastest growing short-term insurance company with comprehensive products that provide protection against current and emerging risks facing clients in the motor and home insurance sectors. Vitality Drive, an internationally-recognised and award-winning programme, is a key differentiator in the market that incentivises and rewards clients for driving well. The Vitality Drive programme has been scaled to local and international markets which now include Europe and the Middle East. The company employs over 1 000 people who are committed to putting our customers and financial advisers first by providing unique and innovative solutions and cover.

Key Purpose

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Full Stack Java Developer with strong Angular expertise to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable enterprise applications, with a focus on enhancing our digital capabilities and front-end user experience.

Areas of responsibility may include but are not limited to

Design:

• Translate business requirements into technical designs adhering to Discovery Insure processes, standards and guidelines, taking cognisance of performance, security and scalability requirements. Deliver within agreed timeframes.
• Liaise with relevant parties where clarification of business requirements or resolution to technical issues is needed
• Research and find effective solutions to technical issues that arise
• Estimate development timelines based on business requirements

Development:

• Construct robust, maintainable, scalable, optimally performing system code in line with technical specifications, following prescribed process, standards and procedures. Deliver within agreed timeframes
• Conduct unit testing and fix any defects found

Testing:

• Verify build stability and quality with development team before releasing to test team, aiming to release with zero defects
• Assist the Business analyst in ensuring the test pack includes relevant scenarios and test data.
• Consult and assist in reviewing risk / impact of defects found in testing, and assist with fixing where necessary

Support / Troubleshooting:

• Assist system users with technical support issues and handle according to defined procedures
• Ability to effectively analyse root cause of system errors (data errors, performance and stability issues)

Mentoring / Team development:

• Actively coach other developers to understand and apply the Insure coding and architectural standards correctly, as well as any technologies in use
• Perform code review to ensure logical correctness, maintainability, scalability, performance, compliance with architectural standards and frameworks

Personal development:

• Keep abreast of current technological trends and how these might be applied in the Discovery environment
• Constant improvement of knowledge of the various applications, their functionalities and data models

General:

• Ability to communicate clearly, constructively and effectively. Easily able to follow and participate in technical, business process, and other discussions
• Able to build business relationships with other members of team and the business areas we support.

Technical Skills

• Excellent understanding of Object Orientated principals and Java language fundamentals
• Knowledge of commonly used design patterns
• Broad understanding of how to put together an EE-based business solution from scratch
• Java
• Spring Boot
• Angular
• EJB
• HTML
• JSF
• JQuery
• JAXB
• SOAP/Restful Web services
• Message Driven Beans
• UML
• XML/XSD
• SQL
• JBOSS
• AWS

Education and Experience

Education:

• Matric
• BSc Computer Science /Information Systems degree
• Formal Java qualification

 Minimum Experience:              

·      6+ years’ experience in Java development with exposure to core competencies listed

·      Advantageous Experience

o   REST Web services

o   JSON

o   Business Process Management Tools

o   Apache Camel

o   Apache Webserver Configuration

o   JBOSS Configuration

o   CSS

o   GIT

·      Strong backend development experience using Java and Spring Boot.

·      Proven frontend development experience using Angular.

·      Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and containerization.

·      Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control tools.

·      Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

·       Integrated Build Tools

·       HTML 5

·       Knowledge of Short-Term Insurance industry

·      Working knowledge of:

o   Software development within SDLC

o   Unit Testing

o   Data modelling and design of database structures

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY   
                             
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.