Java Developer (based in Cape Town)

[oobafinancialservices]

ooba, formerly MortgageSA, pioneered mortgage origination in South Africa over 15 years ago and now offers a range of solutions to homebuyers. As the country’s leading home loan originator, we help the homebuyer to not only finance their home with ease, but also see that they’re well insured.

ooba offers a unique, inspiring environment where empowerment, transparency, collaboration, openness to new things, sharing and clarity are highly valued principles.

Role
The Java Developer will be part of a team delivering and supporting enterprise Java J2EE applications. The candidate must be able to deliver quality solutions, according to standards, reference architectures and specifications.
You must have a proven track record of timeous delivery, producing documentation and working closely with architecture and testing teams. A working knowledge of Java J2EE and SOA standards, testing, high availability and high volume web application development and data modelling experience.
The candidate will be highly motivated, proactive, energetic, a team player, passionate about their work and be able to multitask. This is a fast maturing environment and will suit someone who relishes a challenge and seeks opportunities to grow.
The successful candidate will be based in Cape Town and will report to the Application Architect

Qualifications and Requirements
• 3 years + Java J2EE development experience.
• 3 years + Service Oriented Architecture development experience
• A relevant IT focused Degree or Diploma

•Experience in the following technologies are mandatory:
• Java SE and J2EE
• EJB or Spring
• JPA or similar persistence API.
• RDBMS, JDBC, SQL
• JSP, HTML, CSS and Javascript
• XML and XSLT
• Struts
• SOAP and WS-Security
• REST and JSON
• Version control, preferably SVN
• Java EE Application Server preferably Weblogic
• JUnit
• IDE (such as JDeveloper or Eclipse)

•Experience in the following technologies would be beneficial:
• Selenium
• Oracle Database, PLSQL
• Profiler tools such as Jprofiler or JRockit Mission Control
• ANT or Gradle
• Oracle SOA Suite (BPEL and ESB)
• Atlassion Jira, Jira Agile and Confluence
• Angular JS or JQuery
• Bootstrap
• Microsoft Sharepoint
• Google Web Toolkit and Sencha GXT
• Mobile Development

Required Skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Performance monitoring and optimization skills
• Manage time and workflow to meet service levels
• Handle difficult situations effectively
• Ability to multi-task whilst maintaining good focus

Required Qualities
• Respect for a high degree of confidentiality
• Flexible, positive can-do attitude
• Precise, neat and takes pride in their work.
• Dynamic and innovative
• Ability to learn quickly
• Able to work well in a team and / or individually
• Attention to detail, accuracy and organization
• Motivated, proactive and driven

Please send your CV to human.resources@ooba.co.za.

Please note: If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of submitting your CV, consider your application unsuccessful

 

[whatwhat]

No salary, no care.

 

[Sodan]

Step 3: Provide details regarding the job listing in the text area that include:
Institution
Position Summary
Requirements
Qualifications
Salary & Benefits
Application Information

Mods should either change the rules, or summarily delete threads that don't adhere to it and ban repeat offenders. Allowing posters to flaunt the rules like this makes the mods look like wimps. imho.

 

[Hamster]

And don't fscking say "Market Related" because nobody knows what that means anyway.

 

[whatwhat]

Mods should either change the rules, or summarily delete threads that don't adhere to it and ban repeat offenders. Allowing posters to flaunt the rules like this makes the mods look like wimps. imho.

There are no mods here, that's the problem.

 

[Fuzzbox]

How come all these JOBS that are posted come from people which have only 1 or 2 posts?
Look like everybody wants to be an employment agency.
Maybe that is why there are no salaries posted because they are on a FISHING expedition.
Plus the above job needs just about every skill available.
R 100000 per month should be the salary.
You cant post a classified ad until a certain amount of posts
Surely the same for these guys.

 

[LindaRoos]

Hi @Whatwhat @Sodan @Fuzzbox @Hamster

Thank you for sharing your frustrations with us on the format of the Java job ad we posted.

I can assure you, 'fishing' ain't it. Bonafide job. Bonafide company.

Flouting rules isn't our thing.

We're still a bit new to posting our jobs on this forum and didn't interpret job listing steps as hard and fast rules. #ourbad.

That said, we heard you. No salary = no care. So, with that in mind, we can confirm that the guaranteed salary range for this opportunity would be R420 - R540K per annum.

With that out of the way, can we stop dodging the bullets and get some constructive input from you on posting better in the future?

Regards
Linda Roos
Head of HR

 

[whatwhat]

Thank you Linda.

The rest of your job requirement seems fine, it is just that a salary band is required with the job posting. Without it there is no incentive to apply for a position, you go through the hoops only to find out they are not paying what you currently earn. It just wastes the time of the company and the candidate.

 

[LindaRoos]

@whatwhat

Got you!

 

[Hamster]

Salary - check
Job description - check
Work environment - ? (corporate, relaxed, suits/jeans etc)
Flexi Time - ? (or location because traffic )

This is what we care about

 

[LindaRoos]

@Hamster

ooba's work environment can be described as 'relaxed'. We are, I suppose you could say, a 'corporate' but our environment is not stuffy. Open-plan-first-name-basis-no-suit-required. This is Cape Town...

Some of our guys do work flexible hours, yes. All depends on the role and what's going on project-wise. No one works exclusively from home.

ooba was awarded Leading IT Employer by http://www.iitpsa.org.za/ in 2013 and made it as a finalist again in 2014. (As rated by the people who work here.)

Get in touch if you're keen to apply.

If not, tell someone who might be?