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Full Stack Developer

Job in Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa
Listing for: Tower Group South Africa (PTY) Ltd
Full Time, Contract position
Listed on 2025-12-08
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Key Responsibilities

Application Development & Engineering Excellence

  • Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable microservices using Java (Spring Boot), Python, and/or C#.
  • Build responsive and reusable frontend components using React, Angular, or Vue.js, aligned with UX/UI best practices.
  • Implement asynchronous event handling, messaging queues, and API orchestration for end-to-end flows.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code with strong unit and integration test coverage.
  • Champion modern engineering frameworks such as Microsoft Engineering Playbook.

Fintech Platform Integration & Customization

  • Customize and extend open-source core banking platforms like Apache Fineract to support lending, wallets, savings, and payment use cases.
  • Integrate with mobile money, card networks, KYC/AML, credit scoring, and regulatory reporting APIs.
  • Build and expose financial APIs following open banking and ISO 20022 standards.
  • Develop adapters and abstraction layers to bridge legacy banking systems and modern services.

Dev Sec Ops  & Agile Delivery

  • Drive implementation of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git Lab, Sonar Qube, JMeter, and Git Ops workflows.
  • Embed security controls, Telemetry and static/dynamic analysis into the development lifecycle as part of Dev Sec Ops  culture.
  • Contribute to Agile ceremonies—sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives—and act as a technical voice in estimation and prioritization.

Architecture, Frameworks & Technical Leadership

  • Guide technical solution design, aligning with enterprise architecture and standardized engineering frameworks.
  • Establish and evolve reusable architectural patterns for APIs, data flows, authentication, and service communication.
  • Perform code and design reviews to enforce adherence to engineering standards, performance benchmarks, and security best practices.
  • Contribute to platform-wide engineering initiatives such as shared libraries, code generation tools, and build system improvements.

Code Quality, Governance & Support

  • Enforce code quality through static analysis, code coverage thresholds, and continuous improvement of development standards.
  • Maintain clear and up-to-date technical documentation across services, interfaces, and platform configurations.
  • Collaborate with QA and security teams to ensure rigorous testing and secure release cycles.
  • Participate in production support, incident resolution, and root cause analysis to uphold platform resilience.

Track and resolve technical debt and prioritize refactoring efforts during regular engineering cycles

Technical Experience:

Backend Development & Architecture

· 6+ years of hands-on experience designing and building production-grade backend systems in Java (Spring Boot), with additional proficiency in Python or C# for service-oriented and event-driven architectures.

· Advanced understanding of microservices patterns, including API gateway design, service mesh, circuit breakers, and distributed tracing.

Frontend Engineering

· Expertise in modern JavaScript frameworks including React, Angular, or Vue.js, with strong command of component-based architecture, state management (e.g., Redux, Vuex), and responsive design.

· Experience implementing progressive web applications (PWAs) and web accessibility (WCAG) standards.

· Skilled in integrating frontend interfaces with backend APIs securely and efficiently, including token management and input validation.

Core Banking & Fintech Platform Integration

· Proven track record customizing and integrating open-source core banking platforms such as Apache Fineract, or proprietary equivalents.

· Experience with financial services workflows like digital lending, wallet transfers, savings automation, and transaction reconciliation.

· Familiarity with ISO 20022, SWIFT, and open banking standards (e.g., PSD2 APIs).

APIs, Messaging & Distributed Systems

· Proficient in building RESTful APIs, Graph

QL endpoints, and gRPC services, with strong understanding of serialization (JSON, Protocol Buffers).

· Experience with event-driven systems, using Apache Kafka, Rabbit

MQ, or AWS SNS/SQS for decoupling and real-time data exchange.

· Familiarity with API security standards such as OAuth2, OpenID…

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